Sebastien
#2,451 for boys in 2025, 55 births
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 145 births
- Debut · boys
- 11 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,057since 1971
Sebastien over time
Rank among boys' names. Sebastien has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,451 | 55 |
| 2024 | #1,833 | 88 |
| 2023 | #1,718 | 97 |
| 2022 | #1,611 | 108 |
| 2021 | #1,740 | 93 |
| 2020 | #2,292 | 59 |
| 2019 | #1,777 | 87 |
| 2018 | #1,565 | 107 |
| 2017 | #1,575 | 103 |
| 2016 | #1,456 | 118 |
| 2015 | #1,353 | 129 |
| 2014 | #1,313 | 134 |
| 2013 | #1,162 | 155 |
| 2012 | #1,428 | 116 |
| 2011 | #1,250 | 138 |
| 2010 | #1,292 | 133 |
| 2009 | #1,250 | 142 |
| 2008 | #1,074 | 174 |
| 2007 | #1,053 | 178 |
| 2006 | #1,049 | 171 |
| 2005 | #1,062 | 156 |
| 2004 | #1,049 | 154 |
| 2003 | #1,041 | 150 |
| 2002 | #1,064 | 142 |
| 2001 | #1,020 | 145 |
| 2000 | #1,188 | 114 |
| 1999 | #1,269 | 97 |
| 1998 | #1,605 | 65 |
| 1997 | #1,456 | 74 |
| 1996 | #1,552 | 64 |
| 1995 | #1,623 | 56 |
| 1994 | #1,633 | 56 |
| 1993 | #1,969 | 41 |
| 1992 | #1,981 | 40 |
| 1991 | #1,983 | 38 |
| 1990 | #1,730 | 46 |
| 1989 | #2,615 | 24 |
| 1988 | #2,305 | 26 |
| 1987 | #3,201 | 15 |
| 1986 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #2,098 | 25 |
| 1983 | #3,411 | 12 |
| 1982 | #2,269 | 22 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #3,615 | 11 |
| 1979 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #3,659 | 9 |
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| 1973 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #2,973 | 11 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sebastien! It came in at #2,973, and was given to 11 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Sebastien is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#561 · 1 in 4,223
- New York#794 · 1 in 6,050
- Florida#801 · 1 in 6,147
- Pennsylvania#1,156 · 1 in 11,965
- Illinois#1,185 · 1 in 11,065
Best ever in a state: #199 in District of Columbia, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #561 | 7 | 1 in 4,223 |
| New York | #794 | 17 | 1 in 6,050 |
| Florida | #801 | 16 | 1 in 6,147 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,156 | 5 | 1 in 11,965 |
| Illinois | #1,185 | 6 | 1 in 11,065 |
| Texas | #1,284 | 13 | 1 in 14,468 |
| California | #1,316 | 14 | 1 in 16,164 |
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See more about Sebastien
- 618 spots since 2024 (#1,833 → #2,451)
- 159 spots since 2020 (#2,292 → #2,451)
- 1,098 spots since 2015 (#1,353 → #2,451)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2001 at #1,020 (145 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,660 boys born in 2007 were named Sebastien (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,056 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,020 in 2001, was only 1 in 13,399 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 37.6% of all boys named Sebastien (1,526) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 65 | #2,973 (1971) | #4,046 |
| 1980s | 169 | #2,098 (1984) | #3,086 |
| 1990s | 577 | #1,269 (1999) | #1,680 |
| 2000s | 1,526 | #1,020 (2001) | #1,085 |
| 2010s | 1,220 | #1,162 (2013) | #1,417 |
| 2020s | 500 | #1,611 (2022) | #1,941 |
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.
Sebastien in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 14,858 of them was named Sebastien, which outranked 90.4% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,346Marshawn130
- #1,346Siddharth130
- #1,346Tobin130
- #1,353Sebastien129
- #1,353Dereck129
- #1,353Devonte129
- #1,353Earl129
- #1,359Aksel128
- #1,359Avion128
- #1,359Eleazar128
Tied with 5 names at #1,353; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.