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Sacha

Sacha is a distinctive choice, ranked #873 in 2025. Your child is likely to be the only Sacha in their class.

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UK Rank 2025
#873
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About the Name Sacha

Sacha has seen a notable decline in recent years, dropping 117 places in five years. It was most popular in 1999 at #362 — parents choosing it today are making a deliberately counter-trend decision. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.

Sacha is uncommon in the UK, so your child is very likely to be the only Sacha in their class.

⭐ Famous People Named Sacha

Biographical summaries are shortened from Wikipedia and are used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; those summaries remain available under that same licence.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about the name Sacha

Unlikely. With around 36 UK babies named Sacha per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Sacha in their class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Sacha has been fairly steady, ranked #873 in 2025 against #781 in 2020. Its best recorded position was #362 in 1999.
Sacha is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Sacha include: Sacha Schneider, Sacha Boey and Sacha Opinel. Short summaries for each appear below.
Sacha does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Sachas in the wild.
36
UK babies named Sacha (2025)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↓ 92 places
Rank change (last 5 years)

🏫 Who else is in the room?

In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Sacha

Almost certainly the only Sacha in the class

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UK Popularity (1996–2025)

Rank and birth count · ONS official data

No US data available for this name

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About the Name Sacha

Meaning
defender, helper of mankind

Famous People Named Sacha

Notable people who share this name, from history to the present day. See full list on Wikipedia

Sacha Schneiderb. 1972
Sacha Schneider is one of Luxemburger's most experienced football players.
Sacha Boeyb. 2000
Sacha Boey is a French professional footballer who plays as a right-back and wing-back for Süper Lig club Galatasaray, on loan from Bundesliga club Bayern Munich.
Sacha Opinelb. 1977
Sacha Fernand Henri Opinel is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Sacha Zaliouk1887
Sacha Zaliouk, born Alexander Davidovich Zaliouk (Cyrillic: Александр Давидович Залюк or Александр Давидович Цалюк), was a Russian-born illustrator and sculptor, from a Jewish family in Radomysl (now Ukraine).
Sacha Gervasi
Alexander Simon "Sacha" Gervasi (;) is a British director, screenwriter and former journalist.
Sacha Nacht
Sacha Emanoel Nacht was a Romanian-born French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Sacha Thébaud
Sacha "Tebó" Thébaud was a Haitian-American painter, sculptor, architect-engineer, furniture designer, urban planner, environmental reformer.
Sacha Gros
Sacha Gros is an American former alpine skier who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics.
Sacha Boisvert
Sacha Boisvert is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a centre for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Sacha Pfeiffer
Sacha Pfeiffer is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and radio host.

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