Bastian

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Bastian is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. It appears chiefly in Spanish and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Lat Sebastianus 'man of Sebastia'; first attested Bastianus a1200 Dublin, 1221 AssWo; Colin Bastin 1225 Pat; John Bastian 1317 AssK.

rarermore common
  • CLChile1 in 914◐
  • DEGermany1 in 2.3K
  • ATAustria1 in 2.3K

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

≈12K ●

across 13 countries

Sources
288 ●

211K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.1K ◐

Denmark

Meaning & origin●

from Lat Sebastianus 'man of Sebastia'; first attested Bastianus a1200 Dublin, 1221 AssWo; Colin Bastin 1225 Pat; John Bastian 1317 AssK.

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Bastian is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#451172,41863K rec.—2.9KBastian45
CL Chile#17398,53112K rec.—475Bastian102
DE Germany#37352,71754K rec.—listedBastian208
AT Austria#3297,077641 rec.—2KBastian64
UY Uruguay#2614,3501.7K rec.——Bastian15
NL Netherlands—3,122551 rec.—459Bastian40
DK Denmark—2,834△3 rec.1 in 2.1K2.8K—2
FR France—2,600△6 rec.1 in 26K2.6K—3
PY Paraguay#6441,7891.5K rec.——Bastian9
MX Mexico—1,7054.1K rec.—48Bastian58
US United States—1,55253K rec.1 in 214K7KBastian288
SE Sweden—1,281△115 rec.1 in 8K1.3KBastian24

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Languages●

  • Spanish273K71%
  • German63K16%
  • French14K4%
  • Danish9.1K2%
  • English6.5K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish273,19071%
German62,83416%
French14,0344%
Danish9,1032%
English6,5402%

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◐

Bastian is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish given name14K records spelled Bastian8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Faroe Islands

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Bastían, Bastián

  • Indonesian given name12K records spelled Bastian6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Bastian, Bầstíán, Bastián, Bästiän

  • Polish given name3.7K records spelled Bastian2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Spain, Netherlands

    Also written Bastián

  • a separate given name2.7K records spelled Bastian3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Switzerland, United Kingdom

    Also written Bastían, Bastián

  • French given name2.3K records spelled Bastian37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Laos, United States

    Languages: French, Lao, Thai

    Also written Bastien, Bastián, Bastiaan, บาสเตียน, ́bastien

  • Finnish given name1.2K records spelled Bastian3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Bastián

68 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●

Bastian is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, From Sebastian; man from Sebasta, name of a 3rd-century saint.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, Bastianus a1200 Dublin, 1221 AssWo; Colin Bastin 1225 Pat; John Bastian 1317 AssK. A pet-form of Sebastian, from Lat Sebastianus ‘man of Sebastia’, a city in Pontus.

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In German, a diminutive of the male given name Sebastian, equivalent to English Bastian

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Sebastian(us); Hauptform der Karte. Varianten/Belege mit Zählungen: Bastians 48, Bastijans 0, Bastiansen 0, Paustian 0, Baustian 0, Paustjan 0, Pastian 0, Bestian 0, Wastian 0.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In German, Patronymischer Familienname zum Rufnamen Sebastian (Kurzform Bastian); 4.320 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

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●

0501001501990200020102020103 · 2012

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Bastian in Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present), Austria, 1984–2024
Yearrecords
19844
198510
19865
19878
19887
19898
199021
199129
199232
199332
199446
199529
199639
199752
199843
199948
200076
200171
200272
200381
200470
200592
200681
200794
200884
200981
201089
201194
2012103
201388
201481
201570
201655
201766
201836
201932
202024
202120
202220
202319
202411

AT Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) — 41 years between 1984–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Bastian Clevé, b. 1950Bastian Pastewka, b. 1972Bastian Trost, b. 1974Bastian Reinhardt, b. 1975Bastian Dankert, b. 1980Bastian Steger, b. 1981Bastian Knittel, b. 1983Bastian Schweinsteiger, b. 1984Bastian Schulz, b. 1985Bastian Oczipka, b. 1989

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 90 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Bastian
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020107K#5,034
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020006.5K#4,986
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020206.5K#5,226
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—3.3K#803
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20242.9K#43
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—2.8K#179
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20242.6K#1,814
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20242K#422
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.6K#9,056
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.3K#1,433
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20241.2K#643
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025896—

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 588 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bastian?
We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Bastian (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Bastian have the most bearers?
Bastian is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled bastian.
How common is Bastian compared with other names?
In Argentina, Bastian is the 451st most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Bastian a male or female name?
Bastian 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 Bastian mean?
Recorded meaning: from Lat Sebastianus 'man of Sebastia'; first attested Bastianus a1200 Dublin, 1221 AssWo; Colin Bastin 1225 Pat; John Bastian 1317 AssK.
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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, “Bastian” — the 451st most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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