Fun Facts About the Name Sabastian
- More than 3 thousand babies named Sabastian: U.S. records list 3,668 babies given the name Sabastian from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Sabastian Mean?
Sabastian is a respelling of Sebastian, a name of Latin origin built on a Greek word. The Latin form was Sebastianus, meaning "from Sebaste" or "of Sebaste" - a place name combined with the suffix -ianus, which marked belonging or origin. Sebaste was the name of more than one city in the eastern Roman world; it came from the Greek sebastos, "venerable" or "revered." Greek speakers used sebastos to render the Latin imperial title Augustus, so the city name referred to the emperor. The customary English gloss of the personal name is "venerable" or "from Sebaste."
Sabastian Name History & Origins
The name entered Christian use through Saint Sebastian, a Roman soldier traditionally said to have been martyred under the emperor Diocletian in the late third or early fourth century. The traditional account holds that he was shot with arrows and then killed with clubs, and he became a widely venerated martyr in both the Catholic and Orthodox churches. Through the saint's following, the name spread across Europe in the Middle Ages and took different forms in different languages: Sébastien in French, Sebastiano in Italian, Sebastián in Spanish, and Sebastian in German and English.
Sabastian is an English respelling of the same name, with a in place of the second e. It is a spelling variant only: it has no separate etymology and no separate history of its own before the modern period.
How Popular is the Name Sabastian?
Sabastian recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2001. Its best rank was #816 in 2001.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #3,497 | 33 | 0.0019% |
| 2024 | #3,756 | 30 | 0.0017% |
| 2023 | #2,835 | 45 | 0.0026% |
| 2022 | #2,744 | 48 | 0.0028% |
| 2021 | #2,189 | 65 | 0.0037% |
| 2020 | #2,283 | 60 | 0.0035% |
| 2019 | #1,864 | 81 | 0.0045% |
| 2018 | #1,916 | 78 | 0.0043% |
| 2017 | #1,912 | 76 | 0.0041% |
| 2016 | #1,857 | 81 | 0.0043% |
| 2015 | #1,675 | 94 | 0.0049% |
| 2014 | #1,666 | 93 | 0.0048% |
| 2013 | #1,577 | 99 | 0.0052% |
| 2012 | #1,487 | 109 | 0.0057% |
| 2011 | #1,362 | 124 | 0.0065% |
| 2010 | #1,281 | 136 | 0.0071% |
| 2009 | #1,277 | 138 | 0.0070% |
| 2008 | #1,208 | 146 | 0.0072% |
| 2007 | #1,242 | 142 | 0.0068% |
| 2006 | #1,160 | 146 | 0.0071% |
| 2005 | #1,127 | 146 | 0.0073% |
| 2004 | #1,223 | 125 | 0.0063% |
| 2003 | #951 | 173 | 0.0088% |
| 2002 | #957 | 168 | 0.0087% |
| 2001 | #816 | 205 | 0.0106% |
| 2000 | #937 | 163 | 0.0083% |
| 1999 | #1,319 | 92 | 0.0048% |
| 1998 | #1,499 | 74 | 0.0039% |
| 1997 | #1,324 | 86 | 0.0046% |
| 1996 | #1,611 | 61 | 0.0032% |
| 1995 | #1,558 | 61 | 0.0032% |
| 1994 | #1,361 | 74 | 0.0038% |
| 1993 | #1,337 | 73 | 0.0037% |
| 1992 | #1,307 | 75 | 0.0038% |
| 1991 | #1,305 | 75 | 0.0037% |
| 1990 | #2,609 | 26 | 0.0013% |
| 1989 | #3,987 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 1988 | #3,869 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1987 | #5,983 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1986 | #3,838 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1985 | #4,629 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1984 | #7,124 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1983 | #4,840 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1980 | #7,095 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1979 | #5,264 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1978 | #5,636 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1976 | #4,838 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1975 | #4,236 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1974 | #5,866 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1972 | #3,558 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 1971 | #2,945 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1970 | #2,610 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1968 | #4,633 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1966 | #4,426 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1962 | #3,967 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1938 | #3,954 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1917 | #4,475 | 5 | 0.0005% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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