Sasha (name)
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"Sacha" redirects here. For the Central Asian people, see Saka. For the Siberian people, see Yakuts.
"Sascha" redirects here. For other uses, see Sasha (disambiguation).
Sasha is a unisex name which originated among Slavic peoples from Eastern and Southern Europe[citation needed] as the shortened version of Alexander and Alexandra. It is also used as a surname, although very rarely. Alternative spellings include: Саша (Sasha – Belarusian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian), Сашо (Sasho – Bulgarian), Саше (Sashe – Macedonian), Saša (Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Latvian, Lithuanian), Sasza (Polish), Sașa (Romanian), Sacha (French), Sascha (German), Sascia (Italian[1]), Sasja (Danish and Swedish) and סשה (Sasha – Hebrew).
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Pronunciation | /ˈsæʃə/ SASH-ə /ˈsɑːʃə/ SAH-shə |
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Gender | Unisex |
Origin | |
Word/name | Slavic[citation needed] |
Meaning | defender, helper of mankind |
Other names | |
Related names | Alexandra, Alexander, Aleksandr(a), Aleksandar, Aleksaša, Saša, Sašura, Šurik, Sandy, Sascha, Sacha, Sash, Sasho, Sasza, Sachie, Sacheverell, Oleksandr(a) |
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