Sebastian
1.12k
Babies in 2024
-43%
10-year change
2016
Peak · 1.99k
-15%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Sebastian
Sebastian is one of the more popular UK boys' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #45 for boys born in 2024 with 1,116 babies registered in England & Wales.
Sebastian reached its peak in 2016, when 1,990 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #36 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 1,116 represents 56% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 33,008 boys have been officially registered with the name Sebastian in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 18,255 boys were registered with the name, starting from 1,965 in 2014 and ending at 1,116 in 2024.