Sasha
Sasha is ranked 642nd among girls in 2024 (460 births). Its best rank was 147th, in 1988.
- Rank in 2024
- #642down 23 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4600.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 19881,886 births
- Best rank
- #147in 1988
- Since 1956
- 39,769people given the name
The story in the numbers
38,071 girls have been named Sasha in the United States since 1956, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1988, with 1,886 births — 0.11% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 564 → 642).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1997, and the 1980s alone account for 25%. It has spent 53 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,698 boys have also been given it, 4.3% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1988, its biggest year
Sasha was the 147th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1988 were Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Sarah and Jennifer. See all of 1988.
Names that rose and fell with Sasha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alysepeak 1988
- Kellynpeak 1985
- Ashlypeak 1987
- Kacipeak 1990
- Mallorypeak 1986
- Malloriepeak 1987
- Maloriepeak 1987
- Jennicapeak 1987
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.