Bastiaan

given name · Western Frisian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bastiaan is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and Dutch, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name derived from Sebastiaan.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 595◐
  • USUnited States1 in 2.2M
  • BEBelgium1 in 48K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈29K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
130 ●

7.6K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 595 ◐

Netherlands

Meaning & origin●

a male given name derived from Sebastiaan

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Bastiaan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#15429,054△4.4K rec.1 in 59529KBastiaan130
DE Germany—480398 rec.—1Bastiaan59
BE Belgium—325227 rec.——Bastiaan48
FR France—311218 rec.—listedBastiaan69
AU Australia—303333 rec.—1Bastiaan36
GB United Kingdom—182119 rec.——Bastiaan33
ZA South Africa—181299 rec.——Bastiaan12
US United States—1501K rec.1 in 2.2M150Bastiaan92
NO Norway—9123 rec.—60Bastiaan10
CA Canada—7875 rec.—5Bastiaan18
AR Argentina—7348 rec.—4Bastiaan10
CH Switzerland—6927 rec.——Bastiaan19

Roughly 29K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 595). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Western Frisian45K39%
  • Dutch36K31%
  • English31K27%
  • German8471%
  • French4611%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Western Frisian45,14839%
Dutch36,25131%
English31,01327%
German8471%
French4611%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Bastiaan is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name105 records spelled Bastiaan37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Laos, United States

    Languages: French, Lao, Thai

    Also written Bastien, Bastian, Bastián, บาสเตียน, ́bastien

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Bastiaan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, männl. Vom., niederländische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01020302000200520102015202029 · 2017

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Bastiaan in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199912
200013
200117
200217
200316
200414
200515
200614
200716
200817
200919
201021
201124
201223
201323
201423
201523
201627
201729
201829
201929
202029

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Bastiaan de Greef, b. 1818Bastiaan Veth, b. 1891Rudolf Bastiaan Andeweg, b. 1952Wim Ruitenburg, b. 1955Arnold Bakker, b. 1964Bas Kwakman, b. 1964Bastiaan Geleijnse, b. 1967Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, b. 1970Bastiaan Ragas, b. 1971Bastiaan Zuiderent, b. 1977

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 34 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Bastiaan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—29K#79
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—16K#238
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007663#2,774
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020150#45,183
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—64#6,724
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—63#11,738
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—60#10,672
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—50#8,424
NL NetherlandsSVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered)201740#391
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202029—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201929—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201829—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 90 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bastiaan?
We estimate roughly 29 thousand people bear Bastiaan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Bastiaan have the most bearers?
We estimate about 29 thousand people bear Bastiaan in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bastiaan.
Where is Bastiaan most common?
Bastiaan is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 595 people carrying it.
How common is Bastiaan compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Bastiaan is the 154th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
Is Bastiaan a male or female name?
Bastiaan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Bastiaan mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name derived from Sebastiaan
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bastiaan” — the 154th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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