The baby name Sacheen is a Girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced sah-CHEEN.
The baby name Sacheen is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced sah-CHEEN.
Sacheen is English, Hindi, Sanskrit in Origin.
Sacheen is an English respelling of the Indian name Sachin, tied in popular use to Hindi sac, truth, whose earliest recoverable source is Sanskrit sat, being, real, true; the classical noun satyam denotes truth or reality. The ending -een reflects an English approximation of a long i sound rather than a Sanskrit suffix. As a given name, it is best treated as a modern Indo-Aryan borrowing built on the truth/reality root, not an ancient form spelled Sacheen.
In the United States, Sacheen is chiefly feminine and appears in Social Security records from 1973, the year Sacheen Littlefeather, the White Mountain Apache and Yaqui activist, became nationally visible at the Academy Awards. That association explains why the name is sometimes labeled Native American, though a secure Ojibwe or Apache etymology is not established. Indian usage remains centered on Sachin, usually masculine; Sacheen is a rare Anglophone feminine spelling.
Sacheen is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Sacheen appears only 26 times in total — found in 11 countries. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.
| Sacheen Littlefeather Sacheen Littlefeather was an American actress and activist best known for declining Marlon Brando’s Oscar for The Godfather at the 1973 Academy Awards in protest of how Native Americans were represented in film. Born Maria Louise Cruz, she advocated for Native American civil rights, and after her death, relatives and journalists publicly disputed her claimed Native American heritage. |
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Boys | 0 | #135 | 1 | 4,130 |
| SA | 0 | #312 | 1 | 10,560 | |
| MU | Boys | 0 | #366 | 4 | 8,477 |
| ZA | 0 | #474 | 1 | 14,421 | |
| PA | Girls | 0 | #518 | 1 | 9,861 |
| IQ | Boys | 0 | #697 | 1 | 13,071 |
| SG | Boys | 0 | #739 | 1 | 17,960 |
| QA | Boys | 0 | #740 | 4 | 18,093 |
| OM | Boys | 0 | #918 | 1 | 17,948 |
| IN | Boys | 0 | #1,039 | 1 | 16,750 |
| MY | Boys | 0 | #1,181 | 2 | 25,439 |
| ZA | Girls | 0 | #1,236 | 1 | 25,928 |
| ZA | Boys | 0 | #1,268 | 5 | 25,619 |
| SA | Boys | 0 | #1,690 | 2 | 28,008 |
Sacheen is popular in 11 countries — most recent births per country:
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