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HelpRe: Sasha for a boy?
in reply to a message by Kelly R.
Sasha is a great nick for Alexander, imo. It might be a little bit pretending-to-be-Russian in some places, but I think anyone could get away with it without being too precious. It'd be an affectionate sounding, informal nick -- not the sort he'd put on the cover of the novel he wrote.
Using it as an independent name for a boy is do-able, too, I think... although he'd have to be prepared to explain to people who didn't know that the name comes from Alexander the way Jim comes from James. If you were determined to have him called Sasha, you'd pretty much have to skip the full name Alexander, because it's not unlikely that the boy would not introduce himself as Sasha (because of insecurity related to the girlname).
- chazda
Using it as an independent name for a boy is do-able, too, I think... although he'd have to be prepared to explain to people who didn't know that the name comes from Alexander the way Jim comes from James. If you were determined to have him called Sasha, you'd pretty much have to skip the full name Alexander, because it's not unlikely that the boy would not introduce himself as Sasha (because of insecurity related to the girlname).
- chazda
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