Sabastian
- #3,450 for boys in 2025, 33 births
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 205 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,671since 1917
Sabastian over time
Rank among boys' names. Sabastian has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it. Not on the chart: 5 boys in 1917, 5 boys in 1938 (see the data table).
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,450 | 33 |
| 2024 | #3,693 | 30 |
| 2023 | #2,769 | 46 |
| 2022 | #2,675 | 49 |
| 2021 | #2,173 | 65 |
| 2020 | #2,264 | 60 |
| 2019 | #1,849 | 81 |
| 2018 | #1,886 | 79 |
| 2017 | #1,897 | 76 |
| 2016 | #1,845 | 81 |
| 2015 | #1,668 | 94 |
| 2014 | #1,657 | 93 |
| 2013 | #1,568 | 99 |
| 2012 | #1,478 | 109 |
| 2011 | #1,359 | 124 |
| 2010 | #1,278 | 136 |
| 2009 | #1,272 | 138 |
| 2008 | #1,205 | 146 |
| 2007 | #1,237 | 142 |
| 2006 | #1,154 | 146 |
| 2005 | #1,123 | 146 |
| 2004 | #1,216 | 125 |
| 2003 | #946 | 173 |
| 2002 | #954 | 168 |
| 2001 | #813 | 205 |
| 2000 | #932 | 163 |
| 1999 | #1,311 | 92 |
| 1998 | #1,488 | 74 |
| 1997 | #1,321 | 86 |
| 1996 | #1,599 | 61 |
| 1995 | #1,549 | 61 |
| 1994 | #1,353 | 74 |
| 1993 | #1,333 | 73 |
| 1992 | #1,301 | 75 |
| 1991 | #1,297 | 75 |
| 1990 | #2,553 | 26 |
| 1989 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #3,653 | 12 |
| 1985 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #4,499 | 8 |
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| 1980 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
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| 1972 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #2,813 | 12 |
| 1970 | #2,509 | 14 |
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| 1968 | #4,136 | 5 |
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| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
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| 1962 | #3,640 | 6 |
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| 1938 | #3,534 | 5 |
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| 1917 | #3,981 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sabastian! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1961, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Sabastian is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #2,285 | 6 | 1 in 29,175 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sabastian
- 243 spots since 2024 (#3,693 → #3,450)
- 1,186 spots since 2020 (#2,264 → #3,450)
- Biggest jump: 379 spots in 2000
- Biggest drop: 270 spots in 2004
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 2001 at #813 (205 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2000–2003
- Highest: 1 in 9,477 boys born in 2001 were named Sabastian (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 51,760 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.3% of all boys named Sabastian (1,552) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 5 | #3,981 (1917) | #3,981 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,534 (1938) | #3,534 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 16 | #3,640 (1962) | #3,908 |
| 1970s | 68 | #2,509 (1970) | #4,019 |
| 1980s | 73 | #3,653 (1986) | #4,753 |
| 1990s | 697 | #1,297 (1991) | #1,511 |
| 2000s | 1,552 | #813 (2001) | #1,085 |
| 2010s | 972 | #1,278 (2010) | #1,649 |
| 2020s | 283 | #2,173 (2021) | #2,837 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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