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Saskia?

59 replies

wahwah · 31/07/2008 11:14

Am asking for someone else, so be brutal, I'll summarise!

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Fimbo · 31/07/2008 16:58

It is my niece's middle name - I like it

lovelysongbird · 31/07/2008 16:55

beautiful name unusual yet not wacky
reminds me of that girl in eastender though.
love it.
i can't imagine there being loads of saskias in your dds class.

gladders · 31/07/2008 15:16

funny that it's short for alexandra... we know a saskia with a little brother called alexander.....

Guadalupe · 31/07/2008 15:12

It makes me curl my lip but that's only because
my boyfriend snogged one behind my back and I adored him.

It does sound like Alaska, therefore seems angular and pointy and cold. She was angular, and cold, actually I can't seperate the name from her, ignore me.

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wahwah · 31/07/2008 15:08

Ooh, good comments on the whole. Thank you everyone and keep them coming!

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benandoli · 31/07/2008 14:27

It sounds a bit harsh to me, sorry like a bitch in the making though could be lovely if she is a lovely person

Oblomov · 31/07/2008 14:26

Love it.
Russian name deriving from 'Alexandra'.
More commonly known as Danish, meaning 'people'.

hatrick · 31/07/2008 14:08

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MarmadukeScarlet · 31/07/2008 13:21

My DD is Saskia, we have a dreadful Dutch surname and felt this was pretty enough to not be overpowered by it.

Just after she was born there was an Eastender called this who got killed with an ashtray? I don't watch it but many people asked if she was named after this charachter .

I used to just retort, "No after Rembrant's mistress." generally shut them up

purlease · 31/07/2008 13:15

More common in Netherlands I think - Like it.

zazen · 31/07/2008 13:13

Saskia is a variant of Alexandra. I like it.

moondog · 31/07/2008 13:05

No.Nmae chosen by people trying to beclassy only to discover millions of others have chosen it.

Cies · 31/07/2008 13:03

I like it. However, for me, it does have an upper class, sloaney ring to it.

Boobz · 31/07/2008 12:46

I wouldn't worry about the BB connection - who can remember the names of any of them past the last couple of years anyway? Will be forgotten by the time child is in school.

Lizzylou · 31/07/2008 12:31

Love it, one of DH's relatives has a daughter called Saskia, MIL has terrible trouble pronouncing it though (wtf?), calls her "Sarkia"

Twinkie1 · 31/07/2008 12:28

Love it but it does remind me of the big breasted harlot from BB!

hw2004 · 31/07/2008 12:26

Was there a mad woman in Eastenders who killed someone by bashing them over the head with an ashtray? Or was she bashed??

anyway, it's a nice name

Boobz · 31/07/2008 12:08

It's on my list. I grew up in Holland (but am not Dutch) so it's not that unusual to me. It's pretty and there won't be 10 of them in the nursery class, which is why I like it.

Your friend's daughter will clearly end up in my daughter's class now, obviously.

LynetteScavo · 31/07/2008 12:05

I like it, and would use it.

MaryAnnSingleton · 31/07/2008 12:04

no hippi - am killing time until lunch and then Sainsbury's !!

citronella · 31/07/2008 11:59

Lovely name! If I had had a girl I'd have called her Saskia

DrNortherner · 31/07/2008 11:59

I love it. I want it if I have a dd but it does not at all go with my surname as I have double ss in my surname.

RusselBrussel · 31/07/2008 11:58

MAS, are you stalking me??

I am procrastinating - should go and sort out the swimming stuff (still wet and in the bag) and then prepare lunch...

HumphreyPillow · 31/07/2008 11:53

I like it.

MaryAnnSingleton · 31/07/2008 11:52

hippi !