Staś
Meaning
diminutive of Stanisław, romanized Stas. The boy hero of Sienkiewicz's In Desert and Wilderness, where he shepherds little Nel across Africa, a pairing as fixed in Polish childhood as Tom and Huck in American; a home name that only recently began appearing on birth certificates.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Staś has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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