Saskia
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saskia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Germanic roots, traditionally linked to 'knife' or to the Saxons.
- NLNetherlands1 in 747◐
- DEGermany1 in 2.1K
- ATAustria1 in 3.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈31K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 224 ●
- 1 in 747 ◐
across 13 countries
recorded for this name
89K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
From Germanic roots, traditionally linked to 'knife' or to the Saxons.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #348 | 57,636 | 51K rec. | — | — | Saskia | 196 |
| NL Netherlands | #151 | 23,140 | 14K rec. | 1 in 747 | 23K | Saskia | 123 |
| AU Australia | — | 4,738 | 3.9K rec. | — | 8 | Saskia | 128 |
| AT Austria | #469 | 4,321 | 579 rec. | — | 1.1K | Saskia | 71 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,772 | 2.2K rec. | — | 3 | Saskia | 125 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 3,125△ | 16 rec. | 1 in 5.4K | 3.1K | Saskia | 13 |
| BE Belgium | #686 | 2,780 | 2.1K rec. | — | 5 | Saskia | 85 |
| US United States | — | 1,683 | 9.5K rec. | 1 in 198K | 1.7K | Saskia | 224 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,000 | 479 rec. | — | 1 | Saskia | 61 |
| FR France | — | 815△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 83K | 815 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | #822 | 755 | 638 rec. | — | — | Saskia | 59 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 454 | 462 rec. | — | — | Saskia | 35 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- German70K29%
- English48K20%
- Western Frisian43K18%
- Dutch39K16%
- Spanish8.9K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 70,064 | 29% |
| English | 48,191 | 20% |
| Western Frisian | 43,421 | 18% |
| Dutch | 39,014 | 16% |
| Spanish | 8,926 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Saskia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Dutch: of uncertain derivation. The name has been in use since the Middle Ages, and was borne, for example, by the wife of the artist Rembrandt. It may be derived from Germanic sachs ‘Saxon’. Satin From the vocabulary word denoting the sleek and luxurious fabric. It reached
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jh.s aus dem
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In French, Néerlandais, forme de Saskia/Saxa; souvent rattaché à « Saxon ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1962 | 3 |
| 1963 | 1 |
| 1964 | 1 |
| 1965 | 1 |
| 1966 | 1 |
| 1968 | 3 |
| 1969 | 3 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 3 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 12 |
| 1975 | 32 |
| 1976 | 8 |
| 1977 | 13 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 4 |
| 1980 | 7 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1982 | 8 |
| 1983 | 1 |
| 1984 | 3 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 3 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1988 | 2 |
| 1989 | 4 |
| 1990 | 12 |
| 1991 | 9 |
| 1992 | 10 |
| 1993 | 12 |
| 1994 | 17 |
| 1995 | 22 |
| 1996 | 19 |
| 1997 | 11 |
| 1998 | 21 |
| 1999 | 19 |
| 2000 | 29 |
| 2001 | 28 |
| 2002 | 30 |
| 2003 | 31 |
| 2004 | 19 |
| 2005 | 21 |
| 2006 | 41 |
| 2007 | 36 |
| 2008 | 23 |
| 2009 | 29 |
| 2010 | 17 |
| 2011 | 24 |
| 2012 | 82 |
| 2013 | 253 |
| 2014 | 448 |
| 2015 | 311 |
| 2016 | 271 |
| 2017 | 250 |
| 2018 | 210 |
| 2019 | 160 |
| 2020 | 142 |
| 2021 | 129 |
| 2022 | 88 |
| 2023 | 81 |
| 2024 | 67 |
EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 63 years between 1941–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Saskia van Uylenburghb. 1612NLwife of Rembrandt van Rijn
- Saskia Sassenb. 1947USDutch-American sociologist
- Saskia Vesterb. 1959DEGerman actress
- Saskia Eskenb. 1961DEGerman politician
- Saskia Reevesb. 1961GBEnglish actress
- Saskia Diesingb. 1972NLDutch film director and screenwriter
- Saskia Mulderb. 1973NLactress
- Saskia Clarkb. 1979GBBritish sailor
- Saskia Burmeisterb. 1985AUAustralian actress
- Saskia Rosendahlb. 1993DEGerman actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 68 sources across 36 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 524 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Saskia?
- We estimate roughly 31 thousand people bear Saskia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Saskia have the most bearers?
- Saskia is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled saskia.
- Where is Saskia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Saskia is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 747 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Saskia compared with other names?
- In Germany, Saskia is the 348th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
- Is Saskia a male or female name?
- Saskia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Saskia mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Germanic roots, traditionally linked to 'knife' or to the Saxons.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Saskia” — the 348th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.