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Re: Sasha or Sacha?

by Joan-Ay

1/5/2009, 8:42 AM

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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- Lily8 +1

1/5/2009, 10:10 AM

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

- Joan-Ay

1/5/2009, 10:14 AM

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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