How popular is “Sasha” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sasha” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sasha” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Sasha” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Sasha” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Sasha” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Sasha” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sasha” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1956	6	0.000001455	6		100%
1957	5	0.00000119	5		100%
1960	7	0.000001685	7		100%
1961	6	0.000001448	6		100%
1962	5	0.000001239	5		100%
1963	8	0.000002021	8		100%
1964	14	0.000003601	9	5	29%
1965	7	0.000001931	7		100%
1966	9	0.000002589	9		100%
1967	37	0.000010899	28	9	51%
1968	47	0.000013912	33	14	40%
1969	52	0.000014963	43	9	65%
1970	80	0.000022182	64	16	60%
1971	123	0.000035835	102	21	66%
1972	168	0.000053452	149	19	77%
1973	287	0.000095131	271	16	89%
1974	272	0.000089474	248	24	82%
1975	248	0.000082136	228	20	84%
1976	290	0.000095574	249	41	72%
1977	342	0.000107666	315	27	84%
1978	422	0.000132961	402	20	91%
1979	407	0.000122332	390	17	92%
1980	668	0.000193932	633	35	90%
1981	535	0.000154652	491	44	84%
1982	456	0.00012999	434	22	90%
1983	556	0.000160539	531	25	91%
1984	481	0.000137872	466	15	94%
1985	613	0.000171751	598	15	95%
1986	1184	0.000332857	1159	25	96%
1987	1839	0.000510038	1802	37	96%
1988	1918	0.000519074	1886	32	97%
1989	1730	0.00045	1698	32	96%
1990	1531	0.000387352	1490	41	95%
1991	1028	0.00026391	1002	26	95%
1992	970	0.00025252	948	22	95%
1993	859	0.000227835	839	20	95%
1994	726	0.000195285	694	32	91%
1995	744	0.000203159	715	29	92%
1996	748	0.000205089	699	49	87%
1997	653	0.000180101	625	28	91%
1998	636	0.00017291	615	21	93%
1999	594	0.000160807	567	27	91%
2000	615	0.000162703	579	36	88%
2001	690	0.000184325	662	28	92%
2002	842	0.000225237	810	32	92%
2003	853	0.000224337	827	26	94%
2004	885	0.000231619	850	35	92%
2005	859	0.000223416	843	16	96%
2006	1011	0.000255549	983	28	94%
2007	980	0.000245142	926	54	89%
2008	960	0.000244233	916	44	91%
2009	1288	0.000337157	1251	37	94%
2010	975	0.000263817	944	31	94%
2011	888	0.000242769	858	30	93%
2012	720	0.000196863	694	26	93%
2013	729	0.000199963	707	22	94%
2014	563	0.0001519	543	20	93%
2015	614	0.000165905	578	36	88%
2016	614	0.000167362	588	26	92%
2017	625	0.000174767	604	21	93%
2018	572	0.00016269	539	33	88%
2019	509	0.000146646	477	32	87%
2020	526	0.000157458	481	45	83%
2021	583	0.000172081	529	54	81%
2022	508	0.000150157	463	45	82%
2023	529	0.000159761	483	46	83%
2024	520	0.000156226	460	60	77%

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