Sebastiana
Sebastiana was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,784 among girls’ names; 344 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sebastiana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sebastiana?
#8,784 among girls’ names, 2025
Sebastiana rose from #18,672 in 2015 to #8,784 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 7.5 per million.
15 babies in 1921, the peak
Sebastiana peaked in 1921, when 15 girls were given it, #2,490 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,784 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,216 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,073 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,186 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,870 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,240 | 5.4 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,622 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,723 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,672 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,778 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #19,083 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,257 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,973 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,522 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,197 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,444 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,880 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,414 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,841 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,423 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,275 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,367 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,086 | 2.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,767 | 5.0 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,147 | 4.4 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,404 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,725 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,835 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,661 | 4.1 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,952 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,609 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,959 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,490 | 12.2 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,309 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,187 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,202 | 8.6 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,408 | 12.9 |
| 1916 | 10 | #3,002 | 9.6 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,101 | 9.1 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,889 | 18.4 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,129 | 9.6 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,424 | 14.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sebastiana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sebastiana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sebastiana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sebastiana, and how old are they?
An estimated 174 Americans named Sebastiana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 6 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,241 people named Sebastiana (1,210 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 138 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
More about Sebastiana and names like it
- The most given names of the 1920sSebastiana peaked in 1921.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sebastiana since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Sebastiana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sebastiana alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.