About the name Sacha.
Okay... I just noticed the gender for Sacha is changed from "Masculine & Feminine" to just "Masculine" in the latest update on June 09th 2023.
https://www.behindthename.com/name/sachaThis name can also be a Feminine name in several other countries other than French-speaking countries as a variant of Sasha and Sascha, making this name Unisex.
https://forebears.io/forenames/sacha
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sacha
https://www.popular-babynames.com/name/sacha
https://www.behindthename.com/name/sasha
https://www.behindthename.com/name/sascha
https://www.behindthename.com/name/sacha/top/england-wales
https://names.darkgreener.com/#sachaIs there any reason why this name is now jus "Masculine"? Please tell me in detail.But let me guess anyways—the name IS becoming more common as a Masculine name in France... right?
https://www.behindthename.com/name/sacha/top/franceYou can't judge a book by its cover!

This message was edited 2/27/2024, 11:47 AM

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It was formerly listed as a mf French name. In my view there is not enough f usage in France to support this, so it was amended to m only. Are you trying to suggest it should also be listed as English? Dutch?
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It doesn't seem to be uncommon in Dutch, with 716 male and 2,527 female bearers in the Netherlands (source: https://nvb.meertens.knaw.nl/naam/is/Sacha).Perhaps the page can say that Sacha is chiefly masculine in French and chiefly feminine in Dutch, and thus mark it as unisex.
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Fair enough. I will seriously consider this.To keep this in perspective, we should remember that those 2,500 bearers were born over 70 years. In roughly the same period in France there were over 58,000 boys given the name (though France does have 4x the population).

This message was edited 2/20/2024, 12:08 PM

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Thanks for helping me on this case. I agree that Dutch Feminine usage as a variant of Sascha is plausible.
https://www.behindthename.com/name/saschaIt's also worth noting that I found Feminine bearers with this name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_McMeeking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Parkinson
https://www.google.com/search?q=sacha+visagie
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It definitely gets used for girls in Australia.
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Well now that you said that, yes!At the very least it should be a Dutch Unisex name and a Rare English Unisex name.

This message was edited 2/17/2024, 8:12 AM

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