Nastagio as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Nastagio

What is the meaning of the name Nastagio ?

The baby name Nastagio is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced /naˈstaːdʒo/ (nah-STA-joh).

Nastagio is Italian in Origin.

Nastagio is a medieval Italian given name ultimately from Greek Anastasios (“resurrection”), via Latin Anastasius and standard Italian Anastasio. In Tuscan vernacular the initial vowel was often dropped, yielding Nastagio as a contracted form; the name therefore carries the meaning of rising again, renewal, or rebirth. It appears in fourteenth‑century Florence, where such clipped forms were common in speech and writing.

Its best‑known bearer is Boccaccio’s Nastagio degli Onesti in the Decameron (Day V, Tale 8), whose story later inspired Botticelli’s celebrated painting cycle The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti. The form Nastagio is now archaic and very rare, encountered mainly as a literary reference, while related variants remain familiar: Italian Anastasio; Spanish Anastasio; Portuguese Anastácio; Greek Anastasios; Russian Anastasiy; and the feminine Anastasia (also Nastasya/Nastasia). For parents, Nastagio offers a distinctive, culture‑steeped choice with venerable Christian symbolism.

⚙ We can't find Nastagio in any of the birth registries or name datasets we track. It's the kind of name that tends to be rare, regional, or newly made up. Whatever the reason, hardly anyone else has it.