Bastian
Bastian was given to 219 boys in 2025, #1,021 among boys’ names; 2,614 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,590 Americans named Bastian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bastian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bastian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bastian is “a diminutive of the male given name Sebastian, from Ancient Greek.”
Clipping of Sebastian.
/ˈbæsti.ən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bastian?
#1,021 among boys’ names, 2025
Bastian rose from #1,260 in 2015 to #1,021 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.13 per 1,000.
224 babies in 2024, the peak
Bastian peaked in 2024, when 224 boys were given it, #1,002 among boys’ names. The 219 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 219 | #1,021 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 224 | #1,002 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 203 | #1,066 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 178 | #1,156 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 131 | #1,398 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 166 | #1,160 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 167 | #1,164 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 165 | #1,161 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 160 | #1,170 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 187 | #1,055 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 143 | #1,260 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 125 | #1,365 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,208 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,134 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 53 | #2,377 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 33 | #3,311 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,404 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,567 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,599 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,110 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 23 | #3,945 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,865 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,840 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,196 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,910 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,215 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,171 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,497 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,683 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,627 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,709 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,485 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,882 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,892 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,323 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bastian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bastian has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bastian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bastian, and how old are they?
2,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,614 Americans ever recorded as Bastian. The median Bastian alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 1,565 people named Bastian (13 women and girls, 1,552 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,522 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 61 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 418 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,110 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Bastian born?
The states with the most babies named Bastian are Texas, Florida and California, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 32 | #828 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 31 | #557 | 1.5× |
| California | 25 | #910 | 1.0× |
| New York | 10 | #1,135 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 10 | #478 | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #836 | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 7 | #717 | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,148 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,158 | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 6 | #849 | 0.3× |
Where Bastian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bastian is most over-represented in Florida: since 1991 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bastian with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,213 babies since 1880, Bastian is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 219 of their 249 babies (88%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bastian
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bastian and names like it
- Compare Bastian and BastienBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBastian peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bastian since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Bastian: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Bastian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bastian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.