Sacha

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Sacha boys named Sacha

Girls and boys called Sacha

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Sacha crossed from girls to boys in 2011, and has stayed there for 8 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, which is roughly where it still is.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 47 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

2,563

Estimated living today

2,500

Median age today

37

Peak year

1977

Best rank

1,191st

Rank in 2025

unranked

First recorded

1968

Girls / boys

1,912 / 651

How old the living Sachas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,563 babies given the name since 1968, about 2,500 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 510 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Sachas

• Sacha Baron Cohen (born 1971)British comedian and actor
• Sacha Guitry (1885–1957)French playwright and filmmaker
• Sacha Kljestan (born 1985)American soccer player
• Sacha Distel (1933–2004)French musician
• Sacha Boey (born 2000)French footballer
• Sacha Modolo (born 1987)Italian racing cyclist
• Sacha Dhawan (born 1984)British actor
• Sacha Treille (born 1987)French ice hockey player

People named Sacha with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Sacha is most common

• CA314
• NY218
• TX32
• MA23
• OH22
• FL16
• PA11
• TN6
• NJ5
• CO5

Relative to how many babies each state records, Sacha is most concentrated in California (4.6×), New York (4.1×), Massachusetts (1.4×), Ohio (0.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1977

The most popular girls’ names the year Sacha peaked:

• Jennifer
• Melissa
• Amy
• Jessica
• Heather
• Angela

All the names of 1977

Sacha elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Sacha: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Sacha is most concentrated in Neuchâtel, where 0.22% of children were given it – 80 of them.

Sacha: rank by region

In 2025, Sacha was given 5 times or more in 4 regions of Belgium.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Sacha appears in the lists for Province of Luxembourg (4th), Province of Namur (5th), Province of Liège (6th), Province of Walloon Brabant (11th), Province of Hainaut (14th) and Brussels-Capital Region (53rd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Sacha among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Sacha lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 373 men called Sacha were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 20 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 32 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Sachin
• Sachi
• Sachiko

Sacha against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Sacha vs Sachin
• Sacha vs Sachi
• Sacha vs Sachiko

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