Sascha
Sascha was last recorded in 2025, when 12 babies were given it; 1,530 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,490 Americans named Sascha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 19 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sascha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sascha mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Sascha is “a female given name from Russian” Its etymology gives the senses “Sasha” (Са́ша) and “Alexandra” (Алекса́ндра) and “Alexander” (Алекса́ндр).
Also “a male given name from Russian”
From Russian Са́ша (Sáša, “Sasha”), a pet form of Алекса́ндра (Aleksándra, “Alexandra”) or Алекса́ндр (Aleksándr, “Alexander”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sascha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,959, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
72 babies in 1988, the peak
Sascha peaked in 1988, when 72 babies were given it (64 girls, #1,925 among girls’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 12 | #7,110 | |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,959 | 5 | #13,890 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,230 | 10 | #8,153 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,577 | 5 | #13,997 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,250 | 13 | #6,605 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,241 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,572 | 5 | #13,791 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,351 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,778 | 7 | #10,574 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,631 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,551 | 10 | #7,934 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,415 | 5 | #13,716 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,820 | 9 | #8,639 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,032 | 6 | #12,012 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,069 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,586 | 7 | #10,551 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,057 | 11 | #7,599 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,770 | 16 | #5,717 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,116 | 17 | #5,392 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,663 | 12 | #6,829 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,712 | 14 | #5,820 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,170 | 7 | #9,759 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,642 | 6 | #10,637 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,058 | 7 | #9,206 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,920 | 5 | #11,982 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,654 | 6 | #10,111 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,607 | 5 | #11,301 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,023 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,177 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,243 | 7 | #7,807 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,981 | 9 | #6,316 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,246 | 9 | #6,251 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,775 | 6 | #8,512 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,650 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,172 | 7 | #7,132 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,690 | 7 | #7,035 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,377 | 9 | #5,512 |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,925 | 8 | #5,648 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,836 | 8 | #5,364 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,528 | 5 | #7,620 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,599 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,306 | 7 | #5,474 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,649 | 6 | #6,081 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,764 | 7 | #5,516 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,711 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,666 | 5 | #7,102 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,185 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,215 | 8 | #4,489 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,058 | 10 | #3,796 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,544 | 11 | #3,443 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,794 | 9 | #3,891 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,291 | 8 | #4,123 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,214 | 7 | #4,420 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,375 | 8 | #3,906 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,900 | 6 | #4,822 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,728 | 13 | #2,717 |
| 1969 | under 5 | 7 | #3,879 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 8 | #3,194 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Sascha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,530 Americans recorded as Sascha, 74% are girls and 26% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sascha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sascha, and how old are they?
1,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,530 Americans ever recorded as Sascha. The median Sascha alive today is 30 years old; half are between 19 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 1,839 people named Sascha (1,059 women and girls, 780 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,408 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 269 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 477 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 199 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sascha born?
The states with the most babies named Sascha are California, New York and Florida, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 165 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sascha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,709 babies since 1880, Sascha is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 79 babies (15%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sascha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sascha and names like it
- Compare Sascha and SachaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSascha peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sascha since 1910.
- Russian namesWiktionary’s origin for Sascha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Sascha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sascha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.