Sacha
Feminine · “defender of men”
Sacha is given to both — 1,912 girls and 651 boys since 1880. See Sacha as a boy nameSee other names given to both
In Russia this is what everybody called Alexander, and it belongs to both sexes there without alteration. A man called Aleksandr and a woman called Aleksandra are both Sasha to their families, and nothing about the form distinguishes them — which is unusual, because Russian is otherwise fairly insistent about marking sex.
How old is the name Sacha?
Sacha first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Sacha alive today was born around 1985, making them about 40 years old. About 1,900 people named Sacha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sacha most popular?
Sacha peaked in 1977, reaching #1191 nationally. See the whole 1977 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Aleksandr to Sacha
The story of Sacha
The ch in this spelling is French, not English. Russian writes the sound with a single letter of its own, and when the name reached western Europe it came largely through French — which spells that sound ch, as in chef and machine. English would have written sh. So a spelling that looks like it should rhyme with catcher is following an entirely consistent rule from a third language, and the alternative spelling with an sh is the anglicized one rather than the other way round.
Meaning
defender of men
Two Greek elements, one meaning to ward off or defend and one meaning men. The short form carries the sense at one remove and does not alter it.
How the name formed
- Aleksandr
- Sasha
- Sacha
Related forms: Sasha · Sacha · Saša
Pronouncing Sacha
SAH-shuh
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The ch is a plain sh, which is what French does with those letters and English does not.
Nicknames for Sacha
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1968
- Most girls named
- 198091 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1191reached in 1977
- Change vs 2021
- −37.5%5 in 2024, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Sacha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sasha in Russian — same name
- Sacha in French — same name
- Saša in Serbian — same name
Sachas among us
people named Sacha are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Sacha sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is a living everyday name across most of Europe rather than a coinage.
- It works across the sexes and does so in practice, not only in theory.
- It is short, soft and easy for English speakers to say.
- The ch will be read as an English ch by people meeting it cold.
- Sasha is the commoner spelling in America and this gets corrected.
- The record holds girls as well, and the girl is the smaller side.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sachas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Sacha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sacha in 2025?
- Sacha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Sacha with classmates?
- Sacha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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