Entry № 9266 · Dutch origin

Saskia Saskia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAH-skee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Dutch
Meaning
"Saxon woman"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Dutch)

A name that means "saxon woman".

Saskia is a Dutch name derived from the Germanic Sahsa, meaning "Saxon" — referring to the Saxon people. The name has been used in the Netherlands for over a thousand years.

Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612-1642) was the wife of Rembrandt and the subject of many of his most beloved paintings — establishing the name in art history. Today Saskia is widely used across the Netherlands, Germany, and South Africa.

Saxon woman. Rembrandt's wife.

The name in its native script.

Saskia
Transliteration
Saskia
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɑːs.ki.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Saskia stands.

Saskia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Saskias before her.

Real people
Saskia van Uylenburgh
Wife of Rembrandt van Rijn.
1612 – 1642
Saskia Reeves
British actress.
born 1961
In fiction

Names connected to Saskia.

The number behind Saskia.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Saskia reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.