Stasha
Feminine
Stasha is the middle of a longer name with both ends taken off, and there are two quite different longer names it could have come from. Slavic languages do this on an industrial scale, and the machinery is worth knowing about.
How old is the name Stasha?
Stasha first appears in US birth records in 1965 — 60 years ago. The typical Stasha alive today was born around 1988, making them about 37 years old. About 700 people named Stasha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Stasha most popular?
Stasha peaked in 1988, reaching #2539 nationally. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Stasha
Russian and Polish can generate a startling number of affectionate forms from a single name, and each one carries a different degree of warmth, familiarity or irony. One name can yield a neutral short form, a tender one, a teasing one, a childish one and a rough one, and native speakers navigate the whole set without thinking. English has almost nothing comparable: a name gets one or two short forms and they carry no grammatical information. This is why translators of Russian novels have such trouble, and why an English reader can be thirty pages in before realizing that four of the names belong to the same person.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Anastasia and Stanisława both produce this shape and are unrelated names, one Greek and one Slavic. The record holds the short form and does not indicate which longer name stands behind it.
Pronouncing Stasha
STAH-shuh
Two syllables with the stress in front. STASH-uh, with a short first vowel, is also heard.
Nicknames for Stasha
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
- 1965
- Most girls named
- 199044 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2539reached in 1988
- Change vs 2009
- −25.0%6 in 2013, 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.
Stashas among us
people named Stasha 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
Stasha 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
- Two syllables and six letters: easy to write and easy to remember.
- Stas comes off it as a short form and works for a child of either sex.
- It is genuinely rare in the American record while being ordinary in central Europe.
- Two pronunciations are in circulation and the spelling settles neither.
- It will be heard as Sasha or Tasha by nearly anybody catching it once.
- No origin is documented, so the meaning question has two candidates and no answer.
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Frequently asked
- How many Stashas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Stasha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Stasha in 2025?
- Stasha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Stasha with classmates?
- Stasha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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