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UnisexOrigin: internationalIn Israel: rare

SashaIn Hebrew: סשה · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: סָשָׁהRomanization: sásha

Sasha (Hebrew: סשה) is a unisex name of international origin. 548 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Its peak year was 1994, with 30 babies.

People in Israel
548
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
—
not in the list
Peak year
1994
30 babies
USA, 2025
47
rank #2,718

Writing and saying Sasha

In Hebrew letters the name is סשה, read right to left. Sasha is the Latin spelling recorded in Wiktionary; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "sásha" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • a unisex given name, equivalent to English Sasha
From Russian Са́ша (Sáša), diminutive of both Russian Алекса́ндр m (Aleksándr, “Alexander”) and Russian Алекса́ндра f (Aleksándra, “Alexandra”). Doublet of אֲלֶכְּסַנְדֶּר and סֶנְדֶּר.

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Sasha by year: Israel and abroad

How many boys out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Sasha: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Sasha in English-speaking countries

Sasha in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States202547#2,7182024 (60)
United Kingdom202528#1,1332024 (29)
England and Wales202528#1,0662025 (28)
Alberta20252#1,5712001 (5)
Quebec202525#2172005 (32)

Counts for boys. The Hebrew page for Sasha has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Sasha

How do you write Sasha in Hebrew?

Sasha is written סשה in Hebrew (with vowel points: סָשָׁה). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "sásha".

How many people in Israel are named Sasha?

548 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name סשה: 241 women and 307 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Sasha a boy's or a girl's name?

Both. In Israel 44% of the people named סשה are women and 56% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).

What does the name Sasha mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "a unisex given name, equivalent to English Sasha" Etymology: From Russian Са́ша (Sáša), diminutive of both Russian Алекса́ндр m (Aleksándr, “Alexander”) and Russian Алекса́ндра f (Aleksándra, “Alexandra”). Doublet of אֲלֶכְּסַנְדֶּר and סֶנְדֶּר.

Is Sasha used outside Israel?

The name Sasha appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 47 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,718), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 28 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.