Sasha is the Russian diminutive of Aleksandr or [Aleksandra]. These names came from the Greek Alexandros meaning ‘defender/protector of men’.
Sasha is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Sasha isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Sasha ranks 505. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 4 were named Sasha. In the entire USA, approximately 35,178 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Sasha. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Sasha is the Russian diminutive of Aleksandr or [Aleksandra]. These names came from the Greek Alexandros meaning ‘defender/protector of men’.
Sasha is a common.. name in Europe and started to gain popularity in the US in the 1970s.
Sasha is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Sasha - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 142 in 1988. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Sasha really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sasha was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
503 babies were named Sasha in 2022 - that's 1 in 322,945 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Sasha ranked 537 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The name Sasha may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Sasha is apparently especially popular in Hawaii. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,554 women in Hawaii is called Sasha. In total, that’s 284 women who feel addressed when the name Sasha is shouted loudly across Hawaii and who ensure that their name makes it to #384 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Sasha as the answer a total of 34,616 times. This places Sasha at #641 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Sasha as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With five letters, the name Sasha is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Sasha and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sasha, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Sun
Hat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sasha
Sasha
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
A
S
H
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
A
S
H
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sasha sounds like this:
