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Sebastien

#2,473 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Sebastien has been given to 4,057 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #2,473 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 178 recorded.

Babies named Sebastien, 2025

1 in 60,300

Sebastien over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sebastien: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sebastien means

Sebastien is a given name.

The naming story behind Sebastien

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Sebastien in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 111.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Fr. Gr. venerable”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Sebastien, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,057 boys were recorded with the name Sebastien between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 178 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,022 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,316 in 2020 to #2,473 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,357 in 2015 to #2,473 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 Sebastien?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 60,300
55 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 31,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,473
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,781 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sebastien 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 41,781 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sebastien. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sebastiens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sebastien was born before 2008 — so the typical Sebastien is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,057
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.6% of all recorded uses (1,526).

Is Sebastien 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
−623
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−157
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,116
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.43×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.9%
Peak was 2007 (178)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,022
2001

Spellings of Sebastien

Sebastien is not the most common spelling — Sebastian is, with 95.3% against Sebastien's 1.8%.

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 Sebastien is used

Across 2016–2025, Sebastien was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 18,541 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 7,143
  2. 2Florida1 in 9,091
  3. 3New York1 in 11,111
  4. 4California1 in 14,286
  5. 5Nevada1 in 25,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 25,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 33,333
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 33,333

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.

Sebastien around the world

Where Sebastien 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
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2023
    #614
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2008–2019
    #764
    in 2019
  • France
    1900–2025
    #918
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #655
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1970–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Notable people named Sebastien

People whose public names include Sebastien, 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.

Sebastien in other languages

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

Sebestyén

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

Sebastien by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,473
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 157
Best rank ever
#1,022
2001
Peak year
2007
178 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,057
Count in 2025
55

Names similar to Sebastien

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

SebastionSebastainSebastianoDarrienChristienSebastianSebasthianJavienBrienAdrienMaximilienJayvienLucienDarienXavienDavienDorienJulienZavienSebastyanDaymienFabienBastienXzavien

Names with a curve like Sebastien

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

JacobiGeovanniJayvonIsaakDaylanKamrenWillemIzaakPranavCristoferEanJovani

Sibling names for Sebastien

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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