Saskia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Germanic roots, traditionally linked to 'knife' or to the Saxons
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zascɪa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saskia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 747(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.3K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 3.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 269 (measured from records)
- 1 in 747 (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Germanic roots, traditionally linked to 'knife' or to the Saxons.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saskia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #347 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Saskia | 209 |
| NL Netherlands | #108 | 23,140 | 1 in 747 | 23K | Saskia | 143 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 3,125 | 1 in 5.4K | 3.1K | — | 9 |
| BE Belgium | #671 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 5 | Saskia | 96 |
| US United States | — | 1,686 | 1 in 197K | 1.7K | Saskia | 269 |
| CH Switzerland | #622 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Saskia | 72 |
| GY Guyana | #445 | 150 | 1 in 5K | 150 | Saskia | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 69 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 23K | #83 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 20K | #160 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 3.1K | #472 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,580 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 150 | #445 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 67 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 33 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2012 | 5 | #1,484 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #8,580 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Saskia mean, and where does it come from?
- From Germanic roots, traditionally linked to 'knife' or to the Saxons. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Saskia?
- A machine transcription gives /zascɪa/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Saskia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Saskia in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, 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.
- 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.
- How common is the name Saskia?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 23,140 people named Saskia, about 1 in 747 residents.
- How common is Saskia compared with other names?
- In Germany, Saskia is the 347th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Saskia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saskiaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 347th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.