Pasha
Rare enough that most Poles have never met one: only 55 men carry it, and no boys have been given it in years. Greek at root, where it means "small, humble".
Pasha Pronunciation
What Pasha means
Where Pasha comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pasha reaches Polish through Russian. There, Паша is the warm short form of Pavel, the Russian Paweł. The name came from Greek Paulos, and Paulos rested on Latin Paulus, meaning small and humble. The root names someone small.
Polish ears catch a second sound. Pasza was the Ottoman title for a provincial governor, a władca who ranked as a small król. That sense arrived later, a homonym rather than a true origin. The Russian pet name and the Turkish office share letters and little else.
One documented bearer sits in Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. Pasha Antipov holds the name before he hardens into the commander Strelnikov, the humble form turning toward command. Picture the imieniny for a boy entered as Pasza. He answers to a diminutive of Paweł that once meant small.
How many people are named Pasha
1 in 388113 men in Poland is named Pasha. 55 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5030 among male names.
Pasha as a middle name
Pasha is a first name for 55 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 8496th, between Parsa (2) and Patryck (2).
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#8494 Park2
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#8495 Parsa2
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#8496 Pasha2
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#8497 Patryck2
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#8498 Paulino2