Sasha

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Sasha boys named Sasha

By the numbers

Total US births

40,238

Estimated living today

39,000

Median age today

27

Peak year

1988

Best rank

147th

Rank in 2025

683rd

First recorded

1956

Girls / boys

38,492 / 1,746

How old the living Sashas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 40,238 babies given the name since 1956, about 39,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 14 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 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 Russian, Ukrainian

Borrowed from the diminutive form of Alexander and Alexandra; in English mostly from a diminutive form for both Алекса́ндр (“Alexander”) and Алекса́ндра (“Alexandra”).

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

Notable Sashas

• Sasha Clements (born 1990)Canadian actress
• Sasha Cohen (born 1984)American figure skater
• Sasha Pivovarova (born 1985)Russian model
• Sasha Vujačić (born 1984)Slovenian basketball player
• Sasha Lane (born 1995)American actress
• Sasha Calle (born 1995)Colombian-American actress
• Sasha Kaun (born 1985)Russian basketball player
• Sasha Son (born 1983)Lithuanian singer

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

Where Sasha is most common

• CA6,135
• NY4,089
• TX3,084
• FL2,479
• NJ1,397
• PA1,325
• IL1,241
• OH1,111
• MA1,052
• MI1,000

Relative to how many babies each state records, Sasha is most concentrated in Hawaii (2.5×), Florida (2.0×), Nevada (1.8×), Alaska (1.7×).

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

Names of 1988

The most popular girls’ names the year Sasha peaked:

• Jessica
• Ashley
• Amanda
• Sarah
• Jennifer
• Brittany

All the names of 1988

Sasha 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.

Sasha: 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, Sasha is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.13% of children were given it – 137 of them.

Sasha: rank by region

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

In 2020, Sasha was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2024, Sasha was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Sasha appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (48th), Province of Hainaut (57th), Province of Walloon Brabant (58th), Province of Namur (78th), Province of Liège (117th), Province of Liège (157th) and Brussels-Capital Region (187th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 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.

Sasha by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Sasha 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 – 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 Sasha lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 424 men called Sasha and 358 women called Sasha 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.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 19 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 33 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

• Sascha
• Saskia

Sasha against another name

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

• Sasha vs Sascha
• Sasha vs Saskia

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