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Bastien

#6,175 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Sébastien

Bastien has been given to 301 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #6,175 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Bastien, 2025

1 in 237,000

Bastien over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bastien: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Sébastien

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bastien means

Bastien is a short form of Sébastien.

Origin, language, and formation

Bastien is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sébastien.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Bastien is pronounced /bas.tjɛ̃/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 301 boys were recorded with the name Bastien between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2021; its best national rank was #4,023 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,675 in 2020 to #6,175 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,710 in 2015 to #6,175 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 Bastien?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,175
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bastien 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bastien. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bastiens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bastien was born before 2017 — so the typical Bastien is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
301
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (138).

Is Bastien 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
−1,089
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+500
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+535
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.8%
Peak was 2021 (26)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,023
2021

Spellings of Bastien

Bastien is not the most common spelling — Sebastien is, with 33.7% against Bastien's 2.5%.

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 Bastien is used

Across 1910–2025, Bastien was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Bastien has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bastien around the world

Where Bastien 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
    2010–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    1900–2025
    #297
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,232
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Bastien by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,175
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 500
Best rank ever
#4,023
2021
Peak year
2021
26 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
301
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Bastien

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

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Sibling names for Bastien

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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