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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Sebastian

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#16

down −2 places

2025 births

8,605

up +12 births

All-time births

218,055

4% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2016
10,309 births
Best rank
#13
in 2022
First recorded
1881
#851 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2010
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
136 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 201610,309#23Peak
  2. 201710,197#23
  3. 201810,137#18
  4. 20199,884#18
  5. 20159,632#35

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #13 in 2022 · peak births 10,309 in 2016

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

218,055 boys · 408 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Sebastian has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.