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Sabastian

#3,496 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Sabastian has been given to 3,671 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #3,496 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 205 recorded.

Babies named Sabastian, 2025

1 in 100,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sabastian: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sabastian means

Sabastian is a given name.

The naming story behind Sabastian

Wikidata records Sabastian as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q134269158, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,671 boys were recorded with the name Sabastian between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 205 in 2001; its best national rank was #815 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,285 in 2020 to #3,496 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,675 in 2015 to #3,496 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.

How common is Sabastian?

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 boys only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,496
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

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

When Sabastians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sabastian was born before 2005 — so the typical Sabastian is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,661
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Choose a decade

2000s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (1,552).

Is Sabastian 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
+274
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,211
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,821
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.1%
Peak was 2001 (205)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#815
2001

Spellings of Sabastian

Sabastian is not the most common spelling — Sebastian is, with 94.4% against Sabastian's 1.6%.

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 Sabastian is used

Across 2016–2025, Sabastian was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 46,571 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 50,000
  4. 4Washington1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

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.

Sabastian around the world

Where Sabastian 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
    1996–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1993–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1961–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Sabastian

People whose public names include Sabastian, 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.

Sabastian by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,496
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,211
Best rank ever
#815
2001
Peak year
2001
205 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,671
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Sabastian

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

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Names with a curve like Sabastian

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

LucRyleyIsaakTavionJayvonJavenSahilWillemReillyQuinlanJakubJashawn

Sibling names for Sabastian

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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