Meaning not yet researched.
Bastian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 219 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,002 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,002 in 2024; #1,021 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bastian in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,021 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,002.
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Bastian: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 219 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,002 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 224 (2024).
In 2025, 219 US boys were named Bastian, making it the 1,021st most common boys’ name of the year, down 19 places from #1,002 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 224 boys named Bastian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,002, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 224. For comparison, it was #1,260 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bastian in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 5 babies. In all, 2,614 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,155 babies named Bastian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,800 US boys were named Bastian; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 224. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,799 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bastian ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #478 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sebastian (218,463 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bastien, Bastion and Bas are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bastien (301), Bastion (298), Bas (5), Baustin (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bastian in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 10 | #478 | — |
| Connecticut | 5 | #506 | — |
| Florida | 31 | #557 | #1,187 |
| Missouri | 7 | #717 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #750 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #796 | — |
| Texas | 32 | #828 | #1,290 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #836 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #849 | — |
| California | 25 | #910 | #914 |
| New York | 10 | #1,135 | #900 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,148 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,158 | #900 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,371 | #1,104 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 219 | #1,021 |
| 2024 | — | — | 224 | #1,002 |
| 2023 | — | — | 203 | #1,066 |
| 2022 | — | — | 178 | #1,156 |
| 2021 | — | — | 131 | #1,398 |
| 2020 | — | — | 166 | #1,160 |
| 2019 | — | — | 167 | #1,164 |
| 2018 | — | — | 165 | #1,161 |
| 2017 | — | — | 160 | #1,170 |
| 2016 | — | — | 187 | #1,055 |
| 2015 | — | — | 143 | #1,260 |
| 2014 | — | — | 125 | #1,365 |
| 2013 | — | — | 59 | #2,209 |
| 2012 | — | — | 63 | #2,135 |
| 2011 | — | — | 53 | #2,378 |
| 2010 | — | — | 33 | #3,312 |
| 2009 | — | — | 32 | #3,406 |
| 2008 | — | — | 30 | #3,570 |
| 2007 | — | — | 29 | #3,601 |
| 2006 | — | — | 23 | #4,114 |
| 2005 | — | — | 23 | #3,949 |
| 2004 | — | — | 23 | #3,870 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,845 |
| 2002 | — | — | 19 | #4,202 |
| 2001 | — | — | 15 | #4,916 |
| 2000 | — | — | 18 | #4,221 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,176 |
| 1998 | — | — | 11 | #5,503 |
| 1997 | — | — | 13 | #4,688 |
| 1996 | — | — | 13 | #4,634 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,715 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,491 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #6,888 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #4,899 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,330 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).