How popular is “Sebastian” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sebastian” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sebastian” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Sebastian” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Sebastian” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Sebastian” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Sebastian” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sebastian” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1881	6	0.000031138		6	-100%
1882	10	0.00004514		10	-100%
1885	5	0.000020759		5	-100%
1886	7	0.000027417		7	-100%
1889	6	0.000020765		6	-100%
1892	11	0.000032897		11	-100%
1894	5	0.000014763		5	-100%
1895	8	0.000022791		8	-100%
1896	5	0.000013987		5	-100%
1898	8	0.000020972		8	-100%
1899	6	0.000017687		6	-100%
1901	8	0.000023134		8	-100%
1902	5	0.000012929		5	-100%
1903	11	0.000028856		11	-100%
1904	9	0.000022306		9	-100%
1905	10	0.000023589		10	-100%
1906	5	0.00001167		5	-100%
1907	12	0.000025785		12	-100%
1908	15	0.000030697		15	-100%
1909	14	0.000027385		14	-100%
1910	14	0.0000237		14	-100%
1911	20	0.000031043		20	-100%
1912	51	0.000051616		51	-100%
1913	63	0.000055404		63	-100%
1914	82	0.000057896		82	-100%
1915	112	0.000061121		112	-100%
1916	134	0.000069272		134	-100%
1917	122	0.000060795		122	-100%
1918	114	0.000052508		114	-100%
1919	126	0.000059709		126	-100%
1920	139	0.000061433		139	-100%
1921	130	0.000055686		130	-100%
1922	127	0.000055479		127	-100%
1923	130	0.000056461		130	-100%
1924	137	0.000057524		137	-100%
1925	108	0.000046286		108	-100%
1926	131	0.000057058		131	-100%
1927	104	0.00004484		104	-100%
1928	128	0.000056614		128	-100%
1929	97	0.000044249		97	-100%
1930	113	0.000050826		113	-100%
1931	94	0.000044669		94	-100%
1932	87	0.000041207		87	-100%
1933	75	0.00003751		75	-100%
1934	81	0.000039002		81	-100%
1935	79	0.000037801		79	-100%
1936	65	0.000031286		65	-100%
1937	62	0.000029099		62	-100%
1938	65	0.000029378		65	-100%
1939	53	0.000024053		53	-100%
1940	51	0.000022148		51	-100%
1941	60	0.000024626		60	-100%
1942	77	0.000028186		77	-100%
1943	60	0.000021257		60	-100%
1944	47	0.000017472		47	-100%
1945	47	0.000017716		47	-100%
1946	55	0.000017213		55	-100%
1947	56	0.000015546		56	-100%
1948	70	0.000020275		70	-100%
1949	51	0.000014635		51	-100%
1950	42	0.000011988		42	-100%
1951	44	0.000011944		44	-100%
1952	51	0.000013428		51	-100%
1953	52	0.000013494		52	-100%
1954	47	0.000011807		47	-100%
1955	56	0.000013947		56	-100%
1956	42	0.000010187		42	-100%
1957	50	0.000011899		50	-100%
1958	63	0.00001524		63	-100%
1959	53	0.000012747		53	-100%
1960	70	0.000016852		70	-100%
1961	105	0.000025348		105	-100%
1962	151	0.000037419		151	-100%
1963	109	0.000027538		109	-100%
1964	130	0.00003344		130	-100%
1965	104	0.000028686		104	-100%
1966	99	0.000028484		99	-100%
1967	115	0.000033874		115	-100%
1968	116	0.000034336		116	-100%
1969	117	0.000033666		117	-100%
1970	165	0.000045751		165	-100%
1971	188	0.000054773		188	-100%
1972	155	0.000049316		155	-100%
1973	130	0.000043091		130	-100%
1974	125	0.000041118		125	-100%
1975	127	0.000042061		127	-100%
1976	124	0.000040866		124	-100%
1977	120	0.000037777		120	-100%
1978	143	0.000045055		143	-100%
1979	137	0.000041178		137	-100%
1980	173	0.000050225	5	168	-94%
1981	176	0.000050876		176	-100%
1982	220	0.000062714		220	-100%
1983	192	0.000055438		192	-100%
1984	242	0.000069366		242	-100%
1985	289	0.000080973		289	-100%
1986	281	0.000078997		281	-100%
1987	354	0.00009818		354	-100%
1988	403	0.000109065	7	396	-97%
1989	527	0.000137081	5	522	-98%
1990	790	0.000199875		790	-100%
1991	1044	0.000268018	11	1033	-98%
1992	1303	0.00033921	8	1295	-99%
1993	1307	0.000346659		1307	-100%
1994	1312	0.000352911	7	1305	-99%
1995	1445	0.000394576	10	1435	-99%
1996	1595	0.000437322	5	1590	-99%
1997	1774	0.000489278	6	1768	-99%
1998	1704	0.000463269	7	1697	-99%
1999	2389	0.000646748	11	2378	-99%
2000	5038	0.001332838	9	5029	-100%
2001	4989	0.001332749	10	4979	-100%
2002	5156	0.00137924	19	5137	-99%
2003	4658	0.001225042	9	4649	-100%
2004	4546	0.001189765	25	4521	-99%
2005	4968	0.00129212	12	4956	-100%
2006	6305	0.001593705	18	6287	-99%
2007	6287	0.001572661	13	6274	-100%
2008	6054	0.001540197	13	6041	-100%
2009	5999	0.001570347	7	5992	-100%
2010	6371	0.001723877	6	6365	-100%
2011	6562	0.001793978	11	6551	-100%
2012	6756	0.00184723	13	6743	-100%
2013	7560	0.002073695	8	7552	-100%
2014	9323	0.002515395	10	9313	-100%
2015	9649	0.002607195	21	9628	-100%
2016	10324	0.002814077	16	10308	-100%
2017	10210	0.00285499	13	10197	-100%
2018	10146	0.00288575	11	10135	-100%
2019	9895	0.002850818	14	9881	-100%
2020	9028	0.002702527	7	9021	-100%
2021	8942	0.002639355	12	8930	-100%
2022	9398	0.002777897	5	9393	-100%
2023	8905	0.002689361	15	8890	-100%
2024	8581	0.002578037	19	8562	-100%

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