Bastian
The boy's name Bastian has been in the national records since 1991, with 2,614 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,021st. About 2,600 Bastians are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Bastian
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,614
- Estimated living today
- 2,600
- Median age today
- 7
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 1,001st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,021st
- First recorded
- 1991
How old the living Bastians are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,614 babies given the name since 1991, about 2,600 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Bastians
- Bastian Schweinsteiger (born 1984)German association football player
- Bastian Oczipka (born 1989)German footballer
- Bastian Steger (born 1981)German table tennis player
- Bastian Reinhardt (born 1975)German footballer
- Bastian Dankert (born 1980)Football referee
- Bastian Sick (born 1965)German journalist
People named Bastian with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Bastian is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bastian is most concentrated in Florida (4.3×), Texas (2.6×), California (2.2×), Washington (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Bastian peaked:
Bastian elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Bastian +1 spelling | 2,665 | 430th |
| Norway boys | Bastian | 879 | 143rd |
| Poland boys | Bastian | 406 birth registrations | 212th |
| Switzerland boys | Bastian | 402 | 318th |
| Belgium boys | Bastian | 287 | 507th |
| Denmark boys | Bastian | 156 | 50th |
| England and Wales boys | Bastian | 137 | 1,781st |
| Ireland boys | Bastian | 12 | 541st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Bastian: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Bastian | 283 | 0.023% | 290th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Bastian | 117 | 0.027% | 195th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Bastian | 1 | 0.002% | 193rd |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Bastian | 1 | 0.027% | 8th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Bastian is most concentrated in Valais, where 0.06% of children were given it – 43 of them.
Bastian: rank by region
In 2024, Bastian was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Bastian | 418 | 6 |
In 2020, Bastian was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Bastian | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Bastian was given 2 times or more in 5 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lubuskie | Bastian | 138 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Bastian | 312 | 2 |
| Podkarpackie | Bastian | 158 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Bastian | 215 | 3 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Bastian | 168 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Bastian by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 30 | 318th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Bastian among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Bastian | 64 | 142 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Bastian lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 715 men called Bastian were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zaragoza | Bastian | 38 | 0.078 | 793 |
| Ourense | Bastian | 11 | 0.075 | 712 |
| Huesca | Bastian | 8 | 0.068 | 940 |
| Balears, Illes | Bastian | 36 | 0.058 | 1,065 |
| Lugo | Bastian | 7 | 0.044 | 1,029 |
| Asturias | Bastian | 21 | 0.043 | 1,154 |
Listed in 31 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 21 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Bastian against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.