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Saskia

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Female form of Sasso (see Sachso) [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Saskia ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Saskya ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Saskia
Genitive: Saskias
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Saskia
Genitive: Saskian
Partitive: Saskiaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Saskia
Genitive: Saskias
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Saskia
Genitive: Saskias

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612-1642) was the wife of the Dutch painter Rembrandt

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 12 people were named Saskia (percentage of first or only given name: 92 %) [5]
  • Saskia is the title of a song by the Swedish troubadour with Dutch roots Cornelis Vreeswijk. The lyrics start with the line Saskia har ett namn med klang (English:Saskia has a melodious name).

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[6]
172 261 172 261 0 0
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 293
n.a.
 293 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8]
82
n.a.
 82
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
6 7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
77
n.a.
 77
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Saskia.


References

  1. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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