Given name & surname
Bastian
“the revered one”
In French use, Bastian carries the interpretation “the revered one.”
Original FrenchBastien
Meaning & origin
What it means
In French use, Bastian carries the interpretation “the revered one.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
How it developed
Bastian is used as a form of Sebastian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bastian through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,614
- 2,614 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 224 babies
- 2025
- 219
- #1,021 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +13%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 219 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,021 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 13.0% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (32). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,565 as a first name in 2020; 6,452 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bastian’s family of names
In Faroese usage, Bastian is a diminutive of Sebastian. In Danish usage, Bastian has a conventional equivalent in the French form Bastien. In German usage, Bastian is a short form of Sebastian.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bastian has relatives in 10 languages. Lines run from its French roots to each of them.
Frenchwhere Bastian comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Sebastianfull form · Faroese, Danish
- Bastienvariant · French
- Bastiennediminutive · German
- Bestvariant · German
- Bastiaanvariant
- Baschdidiminutive · German
- Baschdiminutive · German
- Bastidiminutive · German
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bastian
- Bastian SchweinsteigerGerman association football playerborn 1984
- Bastian OczipkaGerman footballerborn 1989
- Bastian StegerGerman table tennis playerborn 1981
- Bastian DankertFootball refereeborn 1980
- Bastian ReinhardtGerman footballerborn 1975
- Bastian SickGerman journalistborn 1965
- Bastian KnittelGerman tennis playerborn 1983
- Bastian SchulzGerman footballerborn 1985
- Bastian BakerSwiss singer-songwriterborn 1991
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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