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Bastian

#1,021 in 2025Boys' name

August, venerable, exalted, through Sebastian

Bastian has been given to 2,614 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #1,021 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 224 recorded.

Babies named Bastian, 2025

1 in 15,100

Bastian over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bastian: meaning, origin, and history

August, venerable, exalted, through Sebastian

Ancient Greek

What Bastian means

Bastian belongs to the name family reached through Bastian → Sebastian. Its meaning is “august, venerable, exalted”.

Origin, language, and formation

Bastian is used in English, Breton, Danish, East Central German, Faroese and German. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sebastian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Bastian is pronounced /ˈbæsti.ən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,614 boys were recorded with the name Bastian between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 224 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,002 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,160 in 2020 to #1,021 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,260 in 2015 to #1,021 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 Bastian?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 15,100
219 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,800
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,021
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,494 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bastian sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,494 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bastian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bastians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bastian was born before 2018 — so the typical Bastian is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,614
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (1,155).

Is Bastian 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
−19
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+139
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+239
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.53×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.8%
Peak was 2024 (224)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,002
2024

Spellings of Bastian

Bastian is not the most common spelling — Sebastian is, with 94.0% against Bastian's 1.1%.

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 Bastian is used

Across 2016–2025, Bastian was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 5,000 boys, against 1 in 10,900 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 50,000).

220 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 5,000
  2. 2California1 in 7,692
  3. 3Texas1 in 7,692
  4. 4Virginia1 in 7,692
  5. 5Illinois1 in 8,333
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 8,333
  7. 7New York1 in 9,091
  8. 8Utah1 in 11,111

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Bastian around the world

Where Bastian 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
    2008–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2024
    #655
    in 2024
  • France
    1972–2025
    #1,462
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #148
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #1,331
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2013
    #499
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Bastian

People whose public names include Bastian, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Bastian in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Bastian. Linked forms have their own page here.

SebastianBastBastiano

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Bastian by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,021
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 139
Best rank ever
#1,002
2024
Peak year
2024
224 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,614
Count in 2025
219

Names similar to Bastian

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

BasilioJullianCassianFinnianDarrianFlorianBashirWillianCillianCaspianJayvianVivianKilianFavianJavianZavianBastienBastionDemianBassamTavianXavianKylianHadrian

Names with a curve like Bastian

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Bastian, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KilianCedarZeusLevMacklinKaceDeckerKarsynCaiusThorinAshArham

Sibling names for Bastian

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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