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Sacha vs Sacheen

American parents have registered 2,563 Sachas since 1880, against 105 Sacheens. Sacha is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sacha against Sacheen, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sacha Sacheen

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Sacha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1974, when Sacha had 61 and Sacheen had 25.

Side by side

  Sacha Sacheen
Total US births 2,563105
Most in one year 12627
Babies in 2025 30under 5
Estimated living today 2,500100
Median age today 3750
Peak year 19771973
Best rank 1,191st girls2,629th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19681973
Girls / boys 1,912 / 651105 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Sacheens alive today are over 50; half the Sachas are over 37. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sacha and Sacheen.