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Sabastian

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Sabastian is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 30 births. Its best rank was 816th, in 2001.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
300.00% of boys
Peak year
2001205 births
Best rank
#816in 2001
Since 1917
3,635people given the name
Babies named Sabastian, by year of birthboys
06312518825018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

3,635 boys have been named Sabastian in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 205 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 43%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Sabastian
1910s5
1930s5
1960s16
1970s68
1980s73
1990s697
2000s1,552
2010s971
2020s248

In 2001, its biggest year

Sabastian was the 816th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2001 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2001.

Names that rose and fell with Sabastian

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.