Sasha
Sasha is given to both girls and boys: 414 girls and 47 boys were given it in 2025 (#684 among girls’ names and #2,748 among boys’, #1,247 among all names counting both); 40,238 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 39,400 Americans named Sasha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 16 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sasha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sasha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sasha is “a female given name from Russian or Ukrainian.” Its etymology gives the senses “Alexander” (m) and “Alexandra” (f).
Also “a male given name from Russian or Ukrainian.”
Borrowed from the Slavic diminutive form of Alexander and Alexandra; in English mostly from Russian Са́ша (Sáša), a diminutive form for both Алекса́ндр m (Aleksándr, “Alexander”) and Алекса́ндра f (Aleksándra, “Alexandra”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sasha?
#684 among girls’ names, 2025
Sasha fell from #542 in 2015 to #684 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.32 to 0.26 per 1,000.
1,918 babies in 1988, the peak
Sasha peaked in 1988, when 1,918 babies were given it (1,886 girls, #147 among girls’ names). The 461 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 414 | #684 | 0.26 |
| 2024 | 464 | #638 | 0.29 |
| 2023 | 483 | #620 | 0.30 |
| 2022 | 463 | #637 | 0.28 |
| 2021 | 529 | #573 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 482 | #605 | 0.30 |
| 2019 | 477 | #631 | 0.28 |
| 2018 | 539 | #573 | 0.32 |
| 2017 | 604 | #519 | 0.35 |
| 2016 | 589 | #528 | 0.33 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 578 | #542 | 0.32 |
| 2014 | 543 | #565 | 0.30 |
| 2013 | 707 | #433 | 0.40 |
| 2012 | 694 | #450 | 0.39 |
| 2011 | 858 | #374 | 0.49 |
| 2010 | 944 | #341 | 0.53 |
| 2009 | 1,251 | #262 | 0.68 |
| 2008 | 916 | #361 | 0.48 |
| 2007 | 926 | #350 | 0.48 |
| 2006 | 983 | #336 | 0.52 |
| 2005 | 844 | #373 | 0.46 |
| 2004 | 850 | #368 | 0.46 |
| 2003 | 827 | #368 | 0.45 |
| 2002 | 810 | #367 | 0.45 |
| 2001 | 662 | #424 | 0.37 |
| 2000 | 579 | #476 | 0.32 |
| 1999 | 567 | #467 | 0.32 |
| 1998 | 615 | #432 | 0.35 |
| 1997 | 625 | #419 | 0.36 |
| 1996 | 699 | #381 | 0.40 |
| 1995 | 715 | #366 | 0.41 |
| 1994 | 694 | #374 | 0.39 |
| 1993 | 839 | #317 | 0.46 |
| 1992 | 948 | #293 | 0.51 |
| 1991 | 1,002 | #278 | 0.53 |
| 1990 | 1,491 | #199 | 0.79 |
| 1989 | 1,698 | #169 | 0.92 |
| 1988 | 1,886 | #147 | 1.1 |
| 1987 | 1,802 | #152 | 1.0 |
| 1986 | 1,159 | #225 | 0.68 |
| 1985 | 598 | #381 | 0.35 |
| 1984 | 466 | #446 | 0.28 |
| 1983 | 531 | #406 | 0.32 |
| 1982 | 434 | #480 | 0.26 |
| 1981 | 491 | #433 | 0.29 |
| 1980 | 633 | #371 | 0.38 |
| 1979 | 390 | #509 | 0.24 |
| 1978 | 402 | #485 | 0.26 |
| 1977 | 315 | #557 | 0.21 |
| 1976 | 249 | #626 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 228 | #669 | 0.16 |
| 1974 | 248 | #627 | 0.17 |
| 1973 | 271 | #583 | 0.19 |
| 1972 | 149 | #867 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 102 | #1,145 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,542 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,917 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,119 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,310 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,787 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,713 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,934 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,207 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,427 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,609 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,862 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,734 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sasha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 40,238 Americans recorded as Sasha, 96% are girls and 4% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sasha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sasha, and how old are they?
39,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 40,238 Americans ever recorded as Sasha. The median Sasha alive today is 28 years old; half are between 16 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 36,127 people named Sasha (34,132 women and girls, 1,995 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 36,617 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 42 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,260 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 15,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,310 |
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 Sasha born?
The states with the most babies named Sasha are California, Texas and Florida, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 78 | #528 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 43 | #710 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 39 | #479 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #482 | 0.8× |
| New York | 20 | #824 | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 17 | #466 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #655 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 14 | #705 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 13 | #791 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 12 | #789 | 0.7× |
Where Sasha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sasha is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1956 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Sasha 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 42,740 babies since 1880, Sasha is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 461 of their 521 babies (88%), again the most given.
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 Sasha
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 Sasha and names like it
- Compare Sasha and SaishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sSasha peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sasha since 1910.
- Russian namesWiktionary’s origin for Sasha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Sasha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sasha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.