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Pasha

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Well-behaved, good-natured (child), through paşa

Pasha has been given to 906 babies in the U.S. since 1964. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1974, with 24 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 55% girls, 45% boys all-time.

Babies named Pasha, 2016

1 in 734,000

Pasha over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Pasha over time

In 2025, Pasha went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19642025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Pasha: meaning, origin, and history

Well-behaved, good-natured (child), through paşa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pasha means

Pasha belongs to the name family reached through Pasha → paşa. Its meaning is “well-behaved, good-natured (child)”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* As an Islamic surname (generally the Indian subcontinent), honorific title from Turkish paşa. This is also found in Albania, Turkey and Slavic countries.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Pasha (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Pasha is used in English.

Pasha comes through Turkish paşa, French Perchard, Old French perche and Latin pertica.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include paşa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 498 girls were recorded with the name Pasha between 1964 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1974; its best national rank was #2,982 in 1974.

In the United States, 408 boys were recorded with the name Pasha between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2019; its best national rank was #4,286 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,914 in 2020 to #7,544 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,977 in 2015 to #7,544 in 2025.

How common is Pasha?

Pasha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pasha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pasha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pashas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pasha was born before 1986 — so the typical Pasha is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
28.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
498
People you could plausibly meet
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1970s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (141).

Is Pasha rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1974 (24)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,982
1974

Spellings of Pasha

Pasha is not the most common spelling — Paula is, with 39.2% against Pasha's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Pasha is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Pasha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 202,706 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Pasha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pasha around the world

Where Pasha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2004–2009
    #3,263
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Pasha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,982
1974
Peak year
1974
24 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
498
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,544
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 370
Best rank ever
#4,286
1969
Peak year
2019
19 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
408
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Pasha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MashaMyshaAashaAeshaNyshaRashaDishaEishaAushaRishaEeshaYashaBashaMeeshaElyshaMokshaTvishaAmishaNeshaPastyLayshaNashaVarshaArisha

Sibling names for Pasha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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