Given name
Sebastião
Sebastião is a masculine given name. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
Sebastião’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Sebastião shares a linguistic root with the Sicilian form Vastianu. In Portuguese usage, Sebastião has a conventional equivalent in the English form Sebastian. In Portuguese usage, Sebastião has a conventional equivalent in the French form Sebastien.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Sebastião has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
7 related names in 8 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- SebastianEnglish, Polish
- SebastienFrench
- SebastianoItalian
- Sebastiaanequivalent
- Sebastianusequivalent
- Sebastiaenequivalent
- Sebastiàequivalent
- Vastianucognate · Sicilian
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People named Sebastião
- Sebastian, King of PortugalKing of Portugal from 1557 to 1578 (1554-1578)
- Sebastião SalgadoBrazilian photographer (1944–2025)
- Sebastião LazaroniBrazilian association football player and managerborn 1950
- MirandinhaBrazilian footballer (born 1952)
- GilbertoAngolan footballerborn 1982
- Tim MaiaBrazilian singer, songwriter, producer, conductor and multi-instrumentalist (1942–1998)
- SebáBrazilian footballerborn 1992
- Sebastião da Silveira CintraCatholic cardinal (1882-1942)
- Grande OteloBrazilian actor (1915–1993)
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