Sasha is a name which originated among Slavic peoples from Eastern and Southern Europe as the shortened version of Alexander and Alexandra. It is also used as a surname, although very rarely. Alternative spellings include: ( â Belarusian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian), ( â Bulgarian), ( â Macedonian), (Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Latvian, Lithuanian), (Polish), (Romanian), (French), (German), (Italian), (Danish and Swedish) and ( â Yiddish).
Usage
This name is especially common in Europe, where it is used by both females and males as a diminutive of Alexandra and Alexander, respectively. Despite its popularity in informal usage, the name is rarely recorded on birth certificates in countries such as Belarus, the Czech Republic, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine, as it is considered a diminutive, not a formal name. Exceptions are Croatia, Germany, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Switzerland.
In Italy or in French-speaking regions (Belgium, France, and Quebec), Sacha is more often given to males. In the United States the name is almost exclusively used for girls and ranked number 569 among U.S. baby names in 2014, although it didn't gain popularity until the 1970s.
Notable people bearing this name
Codenames, stage personas, and alter egos
Animals
Fictitious or mythical entities
Legend, myth, and religion
- Sasha and Zamani, spirits, two stages of time in Central and Eastern African cultures
Fictional animals and creatures
- Sasha, a character from the movie, Help! I'm a Fish
- Sasha, bird character from Walt Disney's Peter and the Wolf (1946 film)
- Sasha, cat from the book series Warriors by Erin Hunter
- Sacha, desman (water mole) in the animated television program Noah's Island
- Sasha La Fleur, a character from the movie All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, the television series , and An All Dogs Christmas Carol
- Sasha (Vampire), a character from the Twilight book and film series
- Sasha, a rabbit villager in the video game '
Fictional people
By surname
- Sasha Antonov, a character from the 2014 Canadian television series Bitten
- Sasha Barbicon, the owner of an art gallery from the game '
- Sasha Belov, character from the TV show Make It or Break It
- Sasha Bezmel, character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away
- Sash Bishop, character from the Irish soap opera Fair City
- Sasha Bordeaux, DC Comics character, former ally of Batman
- Sasha Braus, character from the anime/manga series Attack on Titan
- SaÃ
¡a BÃ
¯ÃÂková, character from Czech sitcom Comeback
- Sasha Dixon, character in the British soap opera EastEnders
- Sasha Gilmore, a character in the American daytime drama General Hospital
- Alexander "Sasha" Nikolaevich Hell, the protagonist of The Qwaser of Stigmata
- Sasha James, a character from the horror podcast "The Magnus Archives"
- Sascha König, character from the television drama Inspector Rex, episode 8x13
- Sasha Kreutzev, character from the anime/novel series A Certain Magical Index (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
- Sacha Levy, AAU Registrar in the British medical drama series Holby City
- Sasha Nein, powerful Psychonaut and instructor from the game Psychonauts
- Sasha Perkins, character in the British soap opera EastEnders
- Sascha Petrosevitch, character from the 2002 film Half Past Dead
- Sasha Thompson, leader of the Mad Dogs and a target in CHERUB book Mad Dogs
- Sasha Valentine, character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Sasha Waybright, from the American animated series Amphibia
- Sasha Williams (The Walking Dead), Tyreese's sharpshooter sister on The Walking Dead TV series
Surnameless people
- Sasha, Russian pilot in the 2009 movie 2012 (film)
- Sasha, Ted Mundy's absolute friend in John le Carré's espionage novel Absolute Friends (2003)
- Sasha, commanding officer from the game '
- Sasha, romantic love interest of Ginger in Nickelodeon's As Told by Ginger
- Sascha, a reaper in the manga Black Butler by Yana Toboso
- Sasha, character from the Bratz line of fashion dolls, see List of Bratz characters
- Sascha, the Russian bartender at Rick's Café Américain, played by Leonid Kinskey in Casablanca (1942)
- Sasha, the enigmatic female hacker from the film ' (2003)
- Sasha, the leader of The Reapers gang in Infamous (video game)
- Sasha, the character from the film The Last Station (2009)
- Sasha, the Muscovite princess in the novel ' by Virginia Woolf
- Sasha, from the Papa Louie video games
- Sasha, the character from the Japanese manga Pita-Ten
- Sasha, the reincarnation of Athena in the manga '
- Sasha, character from Adult Swim's Titan Maximum
- Captain Sasha from the Ratchet & Clank series
- Sweet Sasha, a doll from Ty Girlz
- Sasha, an adolescent schoolgirl from the 2023 Barbie movie
- Sascha ⦠ein aufrechter Deutscher, subject and title of a Tote Hosen song
Inanimate objects
Similar names
Similar names in various languages include:
- Albanian: Dasha, Vasha
- Danish: Sasja
- Dutch: Saskia
- English: Sasha
- French: Sacha
- Georgian: Lasha
- German: Sascha
- Hindi: Asha, Sashi, Shashi, Shikha
- Macedonian: Sashka, Sasho
- Nepali: Asha, Aasha, Sashi
- Persian: Pasha, Rasha
- Portuguese: Sancha
- Russian: áðÃÂð, Sashka
- Ukrainian: Sashko
- Serbo-Croatian: SaÃ
¡a (Safiha / Sabiha in Bosnian)
- Slovak: SaÃ
¡a, SaÃ
¡ka
- Slovenian: SaÃ
¡a
- Spanish: Sancha
- Swedish: Sassa
- Swiss: Sascha
- Thai: Sasicha
- Turkish: Saliha, Sabiha
See also
References