Woman whose mother spelled her name WRONG on her birth certificate says the mistake turned out to be a ‘huge blessing’ that helped her career
- Sacha Rady, 26, from Georgia shared the story behind her name on TikTok
- She explained that her mother wanted to spell her name Sasha – not Sacha
- Rady said the mistake was a blessing because it helped her in corporate America
A woman has revealed how her mother misspelling her name on her birth certificate ultimately helped her in her adult career.
Sacha Rady, 26, from Atlanta, Georgia, went viral TikTok after telling about the story behind her nickname, which is pronounced ‘Sasha’.
The real estate agent, known as @sacharealty on social media, said her mother wanted her name to be spelled Sasha — not Sacha.
“My mom misspelled my name on my birth certificate, and this is why it was actually a huge blessing when I was in corporate America,” she told viewers.
Sacha Rady, 26, from Atlanta, Georgia, went viral on TikTok after sharing that her mother misspelled her name on her birth certificate
The real estate agent, known as @sacharealty on social media, worked in corporate America because before getting into real estate
Rady said she was named after the Sasha doll created by Swiss artist Sasha Morgenthaler, calling it the “British equivalent of the American Girl doll.”
“Growing up, my mom was super poor. She could never afford a Sasha doll. So she said she was going to name her first daughter Sasha,” she explained. “These dolls were spelled SASHA, which is the feminine way of spelling Sasha.”
However, her mother accidentally spelled her name SACHA, a gender-neutral name with French and Slavic roots, according to The punch.
Rady noted that Sacha is the shortened version of the name Alexander in Russian.
“When I was in corporate America, when I emailed people, everyone thought I was a man,” she said. ‘They would answer back: ‘Dear Sir’, ‘Hello, Sir’, and I let that mess go.
“I’m a pretty dry and direct person, and if a woman is dry and direct in the business world, you’re ab***h,” she added. “But since I was a man, it was just another day at the office.”
Rady explained that her mother spelled her name Sacha – the shortened version of the name Alexander in Russian – and people thought she was a man when they emailed her
“I’m a pretty dry and direct person, and if a woman is dry and direct in the business world, you’re ab***h,” she said. “But since I was a man, it was just another day at the office”
Rady’s viral video inspired a number of people to share their name stories in the comments
Rady’s video has been viewed more than 1.1 million times and received hundreds of comments since it was posted earlier this year.
A number of people were also inspired to share their name stories, including the one named Sasha.
“THE SAME HAPPENED TO ME!! But my mother spelled it Sacha for school newspapers. It sucks having to change it again,” one wrote.
“My teacher had a girl named ‘Angel’, but the birth certificate had ‘Angle’ spelled,” someone else recalls.
‘GIRL!!! I understand you. I should have been Yudi, but they spelled it Yuri, so now I’m a Russian man instead of a Latin woman,” said another.
Meanwhile, a mother admitted to misspelling her son’s name, saying that “instead of Christian, it’s Christain.”