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Sebastain

se-BAS-tee-in /səˈbæstiːn/

At a glance

U.S. rank 2025
#8,243 of boy names (outside the top 1,000)
Babies in 2025
9 (<0.01% of boys)
Trend
Rising #9,554 in 2020 to #8,243 in 2025
Peak
#2,848 in 1962
First recorded
1918

Meaning of Sebastain

Sebastain unfolds like a distant blossom drifting on a midnight breeze, its roots buried deep in the ancient Greek honorific sebastos, “venerable,” and carried forward by Latin lips into the echoing halls of early Christendom. As the name of a martyr pierced by arrows yet standing unbowed, it carries an undercurrent of quiet resilience, a stillness that recalls the hush of snow settling on pine needles. In the gentle play of moonlight on a lacquered lacquerware bowl or the delicate drift of cherry petals across a garden pond, Sebastain finds its Japanese soul: poised, elegant, and quietly profound. Whispered as se-BAS-chin beneath English skies or as se-BAS-tee-in beneath American moons, it beckons the bearer toward paths of grace and endurance, a name that both soothes and steels the heart in equal measure.

How to pronounce Sebastain

American English

British English

Popularity of Sebastain in the U.S.

Sebastain was the #8,243 boy name in the U.S. in 2025, with 9 babies. It peaked at #2,848 in 1962. It first appears in the records in 1918.

Bar and line chart: Sebastain in the U.S., 1918–2025. Bars: boys given the name each year, most 24 in 2002 and 9 in 2025. Line: rank among boy names, peak #2,848 in 1962, #8,243 in 2025.
  • Boys named Sebastain (left scale)
  • Rank among U.S. boy names (right scale, #1 at the top)
By year, 1918–2025. Source: SSA. Download: PNG · SVG
Year-by-year table, 1918⁠–⁠2025 45 rows
Sebastain: babies and rank among boy names in the U.S. by year
YearBabiesRankvs previous year
202598,243▲ 1,651
202479,894▼ 2,156
2023107,738▼ 1,259
2022136,479▼ 144
2021136,335▲ 3,219
202079,554▼ 1,339
201998,215▼ 598
2018107,617▼ 71
2017107,546▼ 1,197
2016136,349▼ 1,060
2015175,289▲ 708
2014145,997▲ 244
2013136,241▲ 1,318
2012107,559▼ 550
2011117,009▼ 650
2010136,359▲ 443
2009126,802▼ 1,035
2008155,767▼ 333
2007165,434▲ 91
2006155,525▼ 1,463
2005224,062▲ 540
2004184,602▲ 433
2003155,035▼ 1,481
2002243,554▲ 748
2001184,302▼ 538
2000213,764▲ 2,278
1999106,042▲ 2,437
199868,479▼ 1,861
199786,618▲ 1,353
199667,971▼ 179
199567,792▼ 3,502
1994144,290▲ 407
1993124,697▼ 949
1992163,748▲ 1,348
1991105,096▲ 286
199095,382▲ 1,559
198966,941▲ 329
198857,270▼ 1,811
198775,459back (not recorded in 1973–1986)
197264,441▼ 478
197173,963back (not recorded in 1969–1970)
196863,673back (not recorded in 1963–1967)
196292,848▲ 508
196173,356back (not recorded in 1919–1960)
191854,179new