Sasza
Sasza goes to both boys and girls in Poland, though it leans male: of the 122 people who carry it, 100 are men. A Slavic name meaning "defender of men".
Sasza Pronunciation
Sasza is pronounced SAH-shah (/ˈsaʂa/).
What Sasza means
Where Sasza comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sasza began as a household form. In Russian, Aleksandr and Aleksandra both soften to Sasza when spoken among family, so the name belongs to boys and girls alike. Its meaning travels down from that fuller name. Aleksandr comes from the Greek Alexandros, built from a verb for defending and a word for man, which yields the sense "defender of men."
That older meaning was never lodged in the short syllables of Sasza. It was inherited, the way a nickname keeps a family surname. In Polish today the sense reads as obrońca ludzi.
The form itself is distinctly Russian and Slavic. On a Polish class register a Sasza stands out among the Aleksandras and Olas, marking a family with an eastern ear or an eastern branch. The name stays short. Two syllables, and behind them a warrior's title.
Soft in sound, old in pedigree, Sasza still means obrońca ludzi, defender of men.
How many people are named Sasza
1 in 213462 men in Poland is named Sasza. 122 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3045 among male names.
Sasza's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Sasza as a middle name
Sasza is a first name for 122 men in Poland and a middle name for another 49, a 71/29 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1086th, between Prince (49) and Tapio (49).
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#1084 Olek49
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#1085 Prince49
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#1086 Sasza49
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#1087 Tapio49
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#1088 Tinashe49