Baby name
RISING
🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 Saskia
/SAS · kee · ah/
Meaning
“Saxon woman”
Dutch feminine name, possibly from the Old Saxon Sakse (a Saxon woman) or a short form of names with the element sahs (knife); Rembrandt's wife Saskia van Uylenburgh made it famous in the art world.
Nicknames
sas
Vibe
strongwarm
How it ages.
Feels artistic and distinctive; Dutch names travel well and this one ages beautifully.
The cultural moment.
Popular in the Netherlands throughout the 1980s and 1990s; rising in Germany and the UK from the 1990s onward.