Yasha
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Slavic
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Yasha is a girls' name of Slavic origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Yasha mean?
Slavic
A diminutive Яша of the Russian/Ukrainian male given name Яков (Jákov)/Яків (Jákiv), equivalent to English Jake
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Yasha a girl's or a boy's name?
Yasha is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yasha in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Yasha, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1977, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1970.
Half of all the girls named Yasha in the US since 1880 were born between 1982 and 2003, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yasha in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,798 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,483 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,328 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,495 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,031 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,907 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,417 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,272 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,235 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,543 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,059 |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,941 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,678 |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,617 |
| 1970 | 5 | #7,994 |
Names like Yasha
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Sasha Isha Krisha Asha Priya Prisha Dhara Kridha Dasha Radhika Aisha Viha
Names related to Yasha
More Slavic names
Mila Milan Vera Mira Nadia Milana Rayna Zora Milena Raina Damir Lev Siyana Vlad Lilyana Yuri
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Yasha: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yasha, updated 20 October 2026.