Sebastien

given name · French · Latin script

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

Sebastien is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • CUCuba1 in 12◐
  • GTGuatemala1 in 16
  • CZCzechia1 in 18

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

≈11M ●

across 12 countries

#3 ●

of 16M given names

14 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
659 ●

100M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 18 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

JohnLatin · English●47M records
ΙωαννηςGreek · Greek●989K records
יונהHebrew · Hebrew●95K records
ЯнисCyrillic · Russian●26K records
요한Hangul · Korean●18K records
ᲯონიGeorgian · Georgian●6.8K records
জীবনBengali · Bangla●3.8K records
ዮሐንስEthiopic · Amharic●831 records
โยฮันเนสThai · Thai●161 records
ଜୀବନOdia · Odia●15 records
ՅանArmenian · Armenian●8 records
JoࣩhnArabic · English●1 records
ജവാൻMalayalam · Malayalam●0 records
ජීවනSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

13 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Juan in AR Argentina, ES Spain, MX Mexico and 6 more, John in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 5 more, Jan in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, DK Denmark and 1 more and Sebastian in DE Germany, EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Sebastien is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#212,961,3007.5M rec.—5.7KJuan239
MX Mexico#35,288,3114.2M rec.—4.7KJuan302
GB United Kingdom#14,533,2514M rec.—1.1KJohn396
BR Brazil#33,430,6084.4M rec.1 in 623.4MJoao248
PE Peru#43,194,6532.3M rec.—555KJuan176
US United States#23,118,62055M rec.1 in 1073.1MJohn659
VE Venezuela#82,400,453870K rec.—21KJuan160
GT Guatemala#32,227,734180K rec.—3.1KJuan142
PH Philippines#32,098,1301.4M rec.—listedJohn240
AU Australia#11,965,7301.7M rec.—570John410
CO Colombia#21,937,062665K rec.—1.2KJuan277
FR France#11,910,4004.1M rec.1 in 361.9MJean474

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

Languages●

  • French1.4M96%
  • English31K2%
  • Czech4.5K1%
  • Spanish4.3K1%
  • German3.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French1,445,18196%
English30,5352%
Czech4,5351%
Spanish4,2921%
German3,4871%

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◐

Sebastien is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name6.8K records spelled Sebastien93 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, Croatia, United States

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Croatian

    Also written Sebastian, Sebastijan, Себастьян, Себастіан, Себастиан

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name1.6K records spelled Sebastien2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Sébastien

  • a separate given name1.1K records spelled Sebastien7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland

    Also written Sébastien, Sèbastien, Sebastièn, Sebastién, Sebàstien

  • Croatian given name540 records spelled Sebastien15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Canada, Switzerland, Croatia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Sébastien, Себастјен, Sebastién, Себастиен

60 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.

Over time●

05010015020019801990200020102020178 · 2007

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Sebastien in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1971–2025
Yearrecords
197111
19728
19738
19759
19768
19775
19788
19798
198011
19818
198222
198312
198425
198513
198613
198715
198826
198924
199046
199138
199240
199341
199456
199556
199664
199774
199865
199997
2000114
2001145
2002142
2003150
2004154
2005156
2006171
2007178
2008174
2009142
2010133
2011138
2012116
2013155
2014134
2015129
2016118
2017103
2018107
201987
202059
202193
2022108
202397
202488
202555

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 54 years between 1971–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

0500100015002000Sebastian, b. 255Vauban, b. 1633Sébastien Grosjean, b. 1978Nicolas Anelka, b. 1979Sébastien Squillaci, b. 1980Sébastien Ogier, b. 1983Sébastien Lecornu, b. 1986Sébastien Bassong, b. 1986Sébastien Buemi, b. 1988Sébastien Haller, b. 1994

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 74 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Sebastien
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.5K#4,193
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—878#518
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—439#580
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2022375#3,144
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—290#6,787
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—256#3,446
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—252#4,022
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020230#87,019
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991214—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000182#93,427
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—179#3,701
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010171#104,602

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 379 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sebastien?
We estimate roughly 11 million people bear Sebastien (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Sebastien have the most bearers?
Sebastien is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled juan.
How common is Sebastien compared with other names?
In Argentina, Sebastien is the 2nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Sebastien a male or female name?
Sebastien 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.
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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, “Sebastien” — the 2nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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