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Saskia

#4,341 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly a Saxon

Saskia has been given to 1,230 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #4,341 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Saskia, 2025

1 in 100,000

Saskia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saskia: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly a Saxon

Dutch

What Saskia means

Saskia may mean “a Saxon”, associated with Sas-.

Origin, language, and formation

Saskia is used in Czech, Dutch and German. Its origins include Dutch.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Saskia is pronounced [ˈsaskɪja].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,230 girls were recorded with the name Saskia between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,582 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,462 in 2020 to #4,341 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,683 in 2015 to #4,341 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Saskia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 48,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,341
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saskia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saskia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saskias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saskia was born before 2002 — so the typical Saskia is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
22.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,230
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 22.1% of all recorded uses (272).

Is Saskia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−595
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,121
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,342
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.74×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.5%
Peak was 2024 (41)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,582
2002

Spellings of Saskia

Saskia is not the most common spelling — Sasha is, with 28.9% against Saskia's 0.92%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Saskia is used

Across 1910–2025, Saskia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 189,301 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Saskia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saskia around the world

Where Saskia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #807
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1989–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2012
    #451
    in 2012
  • Ireland
    1996–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    1951–2025
    #2,166
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1962–2013
    #275
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Saskia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,341
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,121
Best rank ever
#3,582
2002
Peak year
2024
41 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,230
Count in 2025
33

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Saskia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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