Meaning not yet researched.
Sasha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 414 in 2025. Its best rank was #147 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #147 in 1988; #684 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Sasha in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#684 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #147.
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Sasha: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 414 girls in 2025. Peak: #147 in 1988 · most girls in one year: 1,886 (1988).
In 2025, 414 US girls were named Sasha, making it the 684th most common girls’ name of the year, down 46 places from #638 in 2024. That is 50 fewer than the 464 girls named Sasha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #147, reached in 1988. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,886. For comparison, it was #542 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 47 US boys were named Sasha, making it the 2,748th most common boys’ name of the year, down 385 places from #2,363 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 60 boys named Sasha in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,408, reached in 1976. The most boys given the name in a single year was 60, in 2024. For comparison, it was #3,216 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sasha in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 5 babies. In all, 40,238 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 4.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 9,980 babies named Sasha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,044 US girls were named Sasha; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 604. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,882 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sasha ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #386 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sacha (2,563 babies since 1880), Sascha (1,530 babies since 1880) and Saisha (1,051 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zasha, Saesha and Sausha are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zasha (213), Saesha (199), Sausha (150), Saysha (135), Sashay (101), Sayesha (70), Zaisha (41), Sashae (39), Zaysha (13), Saiesha (10), Saasha (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sasha in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 8 | #386 | #332 |
| New Jersey | 17 | #466 | #265 |
| Florida | 39 | #479 | #587 |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #482 | #669 |
| California | 63 | #528 | #419 |
| Nevada | 5 | #593 | #227 |
| Utah | 7 | #594 | — |
| Maryland | 9 | #596 | #565 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #623 | #652 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #652 | #402 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #655 | #814 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #675 | #613 |
| Colorado | 8 | #696 | #757 |
| Virginia | 11 | #699 | #496 |
| Illinois | 14 | #705 | #573 |
| Texas | 43 | #710 | #500 |
| Ohio | 12 | #789 | #1,666 |
| Georgia | 13 | #791 | #550 |
| Washington | 8 | #803 | #431 |
| New York | 20 | #824 | #339 |
| Arizona | 7 | #894 | #772 |
| Indiana | 7 | #906 | #761 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,285 | #1,050 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,383 | #548 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 414 | #684 | 47 | #2,748 |
| 2024 | 464 | #638 | 60 | #2,363 |
| 2023 | 483 | #620 | 47 | #2,765 |
| 2022 | 463 | #637 | 45 | #2,863 |
| 2021 | 529 | #573 | 54 | #2,489 |
| 2020 | 482 | #605 | 45 | #2,749 |
| 2019 | 477 | #631 | 32 | #3,558 |
| 2018 | 539 | #573 | 33 | #3,430 |
| 2017 | 604 | #519 | 21 | #4,719 |
| 2016 | 589 | #528 | 26 | #4,077 |
| 2015 | 578 | #542 | 36 | #3,216 |
| 2014 | 543 | #565 | 20 | #4,835 |
| 2013 | 707 | #433 | 22 | #4,436 |
| 2012 | 694 | #450 | 26 | #3,986 |
| 2011 | 858 | #374 | 30 | #3,587 |
| 2010 | 944 | #341 | 31 | #3,515 |
| 2009 | 1,251 | #262 | 37 | #3,153 |
| 2008 | 916 | #361 | 44 | #2,781 |
| 2007 | 926 | #350 | 54 | #2,411 |
| 2006 | 983 | #336 | 28 | #3,670 |
| 2005 | 844 | #373 | 16 | #5,238 |
| 2004 | 850 | #368 | 35 | #2,945 |
| 2003 | 827 | #368 | 26 | #3,508 |
| 2002 | 810 | #367 | 32 | #2,932 |
| 2001 | 662 | #424 | 28 | #3,212 |
| 2000 | 579 | #476 | 36 | #2,615 |
| 1999 | 567 | #467 | 27 | #3,086 |
| 1998 | 615 | #432 | 21 | #3,575 |
| 1997 | 625 | #419 | 28 | #2,810 |
| 1996 | 699 | #381 | 49 | #1,867 |
| 1995 | 715 | #366 | 29 | #2,616 |
| 1994 | 694 | #374 | 32 | #2,438 |
| 1993 | 839 | #317 | 20 | #3,347 |
| 1992 | 948 | #293 | 22 | #3,097 |
| 1991 | 1,002 | #278 | 26 | #2,672 |
| 1990 | 1,491 | #199 | 41 | #1,904 |
| 1989 | 1,698 | #169 | 32 | #2,196 |
| 1988 | 1,886 | #147 | 32 | #2,027 |
| 1987 | 1,802 | #152 | 37 | #1,791 |
| 1986 | 1,159 | #225 | 25 | #2,276 |
| 1985 | 598 | #381 | 15 | #3,193 |
| 1984 | 466 | #446 | 15 | #3,074 |
| 1983 | 531 | #406 | 25 | #2,134 |
| 1982 | 434 | #480 | 22 | #2,327 |
| 1981 | 491 | #433 | 44 | #1,452 |
| 1980 | 633 | #371 | 35 | #1,692 |
| 1979 | 390 | #509 | 17 | #2,757 |
| 1978 | 402 | #485 | 20 | #2,362 |
| 1977 | 315 | #557 | 27 | #1,898 |
| 1976 | 249 | #626 | 41 | #1,408 |
| 1975 | 228 | #669 | 20 | #2,275 |
| 1974 | 248 | #627 | 24 | #1,925 |
| 1973 | 271 | #583 | 16 | #2,492 |
| 1972 | 149 | #867 | 19 | #2,144 |
| 1971 | 102 | #1,145 | 21 | #2,037 |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,542 | 16 | #2,388 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,917 | 9 | #3,274 |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,119 | 14 | #2,293 |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,310 | 9 | #2,955 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,788 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,714 | — | — |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,935 | 5 | #4,518 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,208 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,384 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,428 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,610 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,864 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,735 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).