Sacha
The girl's name Sacha has been in the national records since 1968, with 2,563 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 2,500 Sachas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sacha boys named Sacha
Girls and boys called Sacha
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Sacha crossed from girls to boys in 2011, and has stayed there for 8 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 47 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,563
- Estimated living today
- 2,500
- Median age today
- 37
- Peak year
- 1977
- Best rank
- 1,191st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1968
- Girls / boys
- 1,912 / 651
How old the living Sachas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,563 babies given the name since 1968, about 2,500 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 510 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Sachas
- Sacha Baron Cohen (born 1971)British comedian and actor
- Sacha Guitry (1885–1957)French playwright and filmmaker
- Sacha Kljestan (born 1985)American soccer player
- Sacha Distel (1933–2004)French musician
- Sacha Boey (born 2000)French footballer
- Sacha Modolo (born 1987)Italian racing cyclist
- Sacha Dhawan (born 1984)British actor
- Sacha Treille (born 1987)French ice hockey player
People named Sacha with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sacha is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sacha is most concentrated in California (4.6×), New York (4.1×), Massachusetts (1.4×), Ohio (0.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1977
The most popular girls’ names the year Sacha peaked:
Sacha elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Sacha | 66,140 | 18th |
| Belgium boys | Sacha | 5,366 | 28th |
| France girls | Sacha | 3,960 | 310th |
| Switzerland boys | Sacha | 1,042 | 160th |
| England and Wales girls | Sacha | 789 | 362nd |
| England and Wales boys | Sacha | 766 | 781st |
| Belgium girls | Sacha | 365 | 368th |
| Scotland girls | Sacha | 133 | 289th |
| Switzerland girls | Sacha | 53 | 988th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Sacha | 21 | 261st |
| Ireland girls | Sacha | 14 | 483rd |
| Scotland boys | Sacha | 6 | 720th |
| Ireland boys | Sacha | 3 | 321st |
| Poland boys | Sacha | 3 birth registrations | 588th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Sacha: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Sacha | 130 | 0.010% | 256th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Sacha | 11 | 0.001% | 835th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Sacha | 889 | 0.204% | 34th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Sacha | 42 | 0.010% | 405th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Sacha | 23 | 0.035% | 66th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Sacha is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.22% of children were given it – 223 of them.
Sacha: rank by region
In 2025, Sacha was given 5 times or more in 4 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Sacha | 714 | 7 |
| Wallonia | Sacha | 9 | 148 |
| Wallonia | Sacha | 300 | 9 |
| Brussels | Sacha | 53 | 18 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Sacha appears in the lists for Province of Luxembourg (4th), Province of Namur (5th), Province of Liège (6th), Province of Walloon Brabant (11th), Province of Hainaut (14th) and Brussels-Capital Region (53rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Sacha among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Sacha | 2,301 | 2,527 |
| the Netherlands boys | Sacha | 583 | 716 |
| Finland boys | Sacha | 27 | 37 |
| Finland girls | Sacha | 8 | 8 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Sacha lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 373 men called Sacha were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Sacha | 23 | 0.037 | 1,550 |
| Málaga | Sacha | 32 | 0.037 | 1,376 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Sacha | 16 | 0.030 | 2,406 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Sacha | 28 | 0.028 | 2,090 |
| Asturias | Sacha | 13 | 0.027 | 1,613 |
| Cantabria | Sacha | 7 | 0.024 | 1,596 |
Listed in 20 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 32 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Sacha against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.