Sascha
Sascha reached its high-water mark in 1988 at number 1,911, and has been recorded 1,530 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 1,500 Saschas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sascha boys named Sascha
Girls and boys called Sascha
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,135 girls and 395 boys in all, and in 2015 the split was 16 to 10.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 30 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
- 1,530
- Estimated living today
- 1,500
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 1988
- Best rank
- 1,911th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1967
- Girls / boys
- 1,135 / 395
How old the living Saschas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,530 babies given the name since 1967, about 1,500 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 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.
Notable Saschas
- Sascha Riether (born 1983)German footballer
- Sascha Klein (born 1985)diver
- Sascha Gerstner (born 1977)German guitarist and musician
- Sascha Burchert (born 1989)German footballer
- Sascha Lewandowski (1971–2016)German association football player and manager
- Sascha Schneider (1870–1927)German artist
- Sascha Paeth (born 1970)German musician and record producer
- Sascha Mölders (born 1985)German footballer
People named Sascha with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sascha is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sascha is most concentrated in California (7.8×), New York (1.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1988
The most popular girls’ names the year Sascha peaked:
Sascha elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria boys | Sascha | 1,920 | 43rd |
| Switzerland boys | Sascha | 848 | 85th |
| France boys | Sascha | 410 | 1,449th |
| England and Wales girls | Sascha | 197 | 1,072nd |
| France girls | Sascha | 135 | 3,657th |
| Belgium boys | Sascha | 108 | 505th |
| England and Wales boys | Sascha | 69 | 2,730th |
| Belgium girls | Sascha | 15 | 1,101st |
| Scotland girls | Sascha | 6 | 634th |
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.
Sascha: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Sascha | 791 | 0.064% | 59th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Sascha | 39 | 0.009% | 344th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Sascha | 17 | 0.026% | 67th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Sascha | 1 | 0.027% | 10th |
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, Sascha is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.08% of children were given it – 158 of them.
Sascha: rank by region
In 2006, Sascha was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Sascha | 289 | 10 |
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.
Sascha by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 20 | 323rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Sascha 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.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Sascha | 1,824 | 2,024 |
| the Netherlands boys | Sascha | 538 | 669 |
| Finland boys | Sascha | 14 | 17 |
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.
Related names
Sascha against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.