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Sasha or Sacha?
I love them both for a girl. Which spelling is best? I like Sacha better but fear people will say SUHT-cha or something.Do you prefer it for a boy or a girl?I like it as a full name. I know it's short for Alexander and Alexandra but Alexandra nn Sacha doesn't make much sense to me. I wonder if it's pronounced differently in Russian cause I really have no idea how you get Sacha out of Alexandra, it doesn't contain any sounds and hardly any letters that Sasha/Sacha has and it would be hard to explain people over and over again that it's Alexandra nn Sacha.Too nicknamey? Do you know any Sashas? male or female?oh and do you like Sacha Rose or is Rose too boring in the middle?
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I prefer Sascha, but for a nn for Alexander!It's not terrible on a girl though, a little cute, but definitely a boy's name.
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I like it spelled Sascha on a boy.:D
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I like it better on a girl, though it's tollerable on a boy... Can go either way, but I think it's cute on a girl- esp. if she suits it. I prefer Sasha simply because prn. is more obvious for those not so familiar with the name.
I knew 1 guy named Sacha and have met a couple gals by that name on occasion, I believe. 1 was in my bunkhouse at camp many years ago and it totally suited her.
Sasha Rose is ok... Kinda pretty.
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Well, I'm a bit biased because I named my first daughter Sasha as her full name. (Her mn is Brianne, which honors a relative but isn't exactly ms - she loves it though). I like it as both a girls' and boys' name. No one has ever asked me if it was a nickname for Alexandra or mistaken her for a boy. To me, the "sh" sound is very soft and feminine, especially with the A on the end. I picked the name because its not that common but is still familiar and because it just sounds like a sweet and sassy little whisper.Anyway, my Sasha-bug is three now and I think it is a perfect name for her. She is a bookworm, creative and curious and she loves to dance. I get lots of compliments on her name. Sacha is cute, too. I like it better, actually, but I'm always trying to stick to names that teachers and classmates can pronounce and remember easily, on the first try. Nobody ever forgets Sasha's name. Good luck!
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Sasha looks nicer to me. I'm not sure what's the more "philological" transcription.
Personally I prefer it on boys, but as a nn it works on both genders.
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I generally prefer it spelled Sasha and I like it as a nickname only. I haven't met one personally that I remember, but my first association with the name was a male character in a Russian novel.
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SashaHere, Sasha is used both for boys and girls, personally I prefer Sasha for a boy and Shura for a girl.I only like Sasha spelling, because in Russian and other Slavic languages (including mine), 'sh' is one letter and 'ch' is a different letter and sh is always like shoes and ch is always pronounced like in church.You get Sasha, because -sha is a Russian diminutive ending added to the middle syllable of Alek-SA-nder. You also have MA-ria = MA-SHA, DA-ria = DA-SHA, MI-hael = MI-SHA, etc.

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I like Sasha, but only for a boy. I think it's too masculine for a girl. Spelling Sacha is OK, but Sasha is a lot better.Sacha Rose doesn't sound so good, too much s- and z-sounds in one name.

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I like the spelling SashaAnd oddly enough I like it as a full name, since I've only seen it as one. I actually don't like the name that much. I don't think Rose should be used as a middle name for any name. It's such a beautiful name and should be a first name.Rose Sasha's not bad

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i prefer it as a nn for a boy. russian nns kind of do that, where they have a basis in the name, but really do change into another form. [e.g. avdotya - nn dunya/dounia/dunechka] i do know of one little girl named sasha. i feel like in the united states at least it is thoguht of as more feminine. i do think it's a little nicknamey. maybe a nn for sandra or alexandra/ria, etc. also i don't think that sacha is too hard to pronounce. it's a little more interesting i think, too. :)
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I like Sasha better. Sacha just looks weird to me. I like it about the same for boys and girls.
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I only like Sasha on a boy and then only spelt Sascha because Sacha and Sasha look so incomplete to me. I can't stand it on a girl at all, it's completely masculine to me.Russian nicknames puzzle me as well, but I usually love them. They have a certain charm. I love Mascha, for example. It's just so... Russian to me. LOL. :)
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Oh I know I love Katia and Ronia. I like Masha as well. I met the cutest little girl named Masha some time ago.
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I majored in Russian in college (many, many moons ago) so I can only see Sasha as a boy's nn for Alexander. Nns in Russian are a lot of fun. Suffice it to say they love to make the nn as soft and "smooshy" as possible. The "x / ks" sound in Russian is what turns into an "s" sound at the start of Sasha. Maria becomes Masha, Pavel becomes Pasha. There's no real formula, just the desire to smoosh.I prefer the Sasha spelling because there are strict transliteration rules and that's how a linguist would spell it. (I'm guessing the "ch" spelling is a German or Yiddish one. But as I say, that's just a guess. Does anyone else know for sure?)
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Sasha, definately.
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The ch spelling is French. In French the ch makes a sh sound. Natasha can be spelled Natacha there etc
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I only like it on a boy, to me it's completely masculine and very handsome. My cousin's fiance is named Sacha and I think it's really awesome because it fits him so well. To my knowledge no one has pronounced his name wrong, he's always been SASH-a. Oh, and his full name is Sacha, it's not a nickname. Anyone feel free to correct me on this, but I believe it's the pronunciation that gives you the nicknames Sasha / Sacha. If you look at the German and Dutch pronunciations it SAHN and not ZAN. So I can see how Sasha comes from that.Sacha Rose is okay, but since I like it only on a boy, I'm immediately turned off. I also think of Sarah Rose at first glance, which is a bit boring IMO.
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When I went to Russia I met heaps of female Sashas. I guess it's common for both genders. I'm German but I still don't get it :P SAHN - hmmmm Sandy, Sandra, Zandra...but I still don't get Sasha. But I guess that's fine, I also don't get Margaret - Peggy and several others. To me a nickname has to be clearly derived from the name as in Zippy for Zipporah or Alex for Alexandra but that's just me I guess :P
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Yeah some nicknames don't make a lot of sense, especially if you don't speak the language. About Peggy though, if you look it says it's a medieval variant of "Meggie", so the name just morphed into Peggy overtime.
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