Given name & surname
Sabastian
Sabastian is used as a given name and a surname.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Sabastian isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sabastian through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,671
- 3,671 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 205 babies
- 2025
- 33
- #3,497 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −41%
- Cooling
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 33 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 3,497 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 40.8% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 205 in 2001. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (6). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,964 as a first name in 2020; 185 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.
Sabastian’s family of names
Sabastian has a related form in Sebastian. In English usage, Sabastian has a conventional equivalent in the German form Sebastian.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Sabastian
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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