Either a diminutive of <a href="details.php?no=&n=ANASTASIA">ANASTASIA</a>, or else from a surname which was derived from Stace, a medieval form of <a href="details.php?no=&n=EUSTACE">EUSTACE</a>. As a feminine name, it came into general use during the 1950s, though it had earlier been in use as a rare masculine name.