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Female Name
Usage
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
Female form of Sasso (see Sachso) [1] [2] [3]
Related Names
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Saskia
|
Genitive: |
Saskias
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Saskia
|
Genitive: |
Saskian
|
Partitive: |
Saskiaa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Saskia
|
Genitive: |
Saskias
|
- 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
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[6] |
|
172 |
261 |
172 |
261 |
0 |
0 |
Finland[7] |
|
n.a. |
293 |
n.a. |
293 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[8] |
|
82 |
n.a. |
82 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Iceland[9] |
|
6 |
7 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[10] |
|
77 |
n.a. |
77 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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
- ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/