Sebastyan

Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Sebastyan has been given to 104 babies in the U.S. since 2000. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2014, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Sebastyan, 2021

1 in 424,000

Sebastyan over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sebastyan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sebastyan means

Sebastyan is a given name.

The naming story behind Sebastyan

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

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Pol. 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 Sebastyan, 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, 104 boys were recorded with the name Sebastyan between 2000 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2014; its best national rank was #6,980 in 2014.

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 Sebastyan?

Sebastyan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 424,000; 8 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only: 1 in 219,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 293,719 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sebastyan 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 2021 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 293,719 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sebastyan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sebastyans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sebastyan was born before 2014 — so the typical Sebastyan is around 11 today.

Median birth year: 2014; About 11 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 52.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 104; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 52.9% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Sebastyan 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2014 (12)
Years since peak: 11; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,980; 2014

Spellings of Sebastyan

Sebastyan is not the most common spelling — Sebastian is, with 95.3% against Sebastyan's 0.05%.

Sebastian95.3%218,055
Sebastien1.8%4,057
Sabastian1.6%3,671
Sebastiano0.44%1,005
Sebastion0.41%937
Sevastian0.24%539
Sebastain0.22%510
Sebastyan0.05%104

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.

Sebastyan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #6,980; 2014
Peak year: 2014; 12 that year
First recorded: 2000
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 104
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sebastyan

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

Sebasthian Sebastain Sebashtian Sebastin Sebastion Sebatian Shreeyan Sebastiaan Dartanyan Zaviyan Sebastiano Pragyan Sebastyn Sufiyan Sebaztian Johnryan Sebastino Kilyan Christyan Demyan Sebastyen Nahyan Dayyan Sebastien

Sibling names for Sebastyan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Honesty Elayna Alaysia Montserrat Amia Priya Adilene Yamileth

For a brother

Jai Vihaan Casen Gannon Constantine Cain Anders Branson

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