Wow, you really have done a lot of work on the name Sasha.
Still, when I hear it, and most all other Americans also, they instantly think of a Russian name.
Why did he give a Russian name to his daughter? I am not the only one to ask that question.
Have you ever met an African-American who has given Russian names to his daughter — except for the ones who are radical communists and, like others in the Bill Ayers groups, such as the student for a Democratic Society and other bomb throwing radicals, who have on occasion named their children after Fidel Castro or Che Guevera ...
Maybe he just wanted to honor one of his KGB handlers?
Just kidding.
Or maybe not...
I am a first-generation American from one of those Eastern European countries in your list. “Sasa” is by no means a name used there, unless by a Russian imposter pretending to be from one of those countries. And I still have never heard it used there, even by the imposters.
For me personally, the name always was and always will be associated with Bolshevism.
When I hear the name “Sasha” I think of Sasha Vujacic, the basketball player from Slovenia for the Los Angeles Lakers. But then, I’m a Lakers fan.
Since Sasha Obama was born ten years after the fall of the Soviet Union, I don’t think there’s much to it.
And then there are black baseball players from the Caribbean, Vladimir Guerrero of the Texas Rangers and Alexei Ramirez of the Chicago White Sox.