Bastion
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- BAS-chun
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #5,606 for boys
Bastion is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “stronghold”. In 2025 it ranked 5,606th for boys in the US (16 babies).
What does Bastion mean?
English: English word, via French; also a play on Bastian
“stronghold”
An English word for a projecting part of a fortress, also used as a play on Bastian, from Sebastian.
Is Bastion a girl's or a boy's name?
Bastion is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Bastion in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,606among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 16about 1 in 110,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 32% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 16 boys in the US were named Bastion, making it the 5,606th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,137th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 33 boys. It first appears in the records in 2002.
2025 had fewer boys named Bastion than any year since 2015.
Half of all the boys named Bastion in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 249 boys in the US were given Bastion or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #867, up from #5,606 for this spelling alone.
Bastion in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,606 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,886 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,250 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,846 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,243 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,137 |
| 2019 | 33 | #3,423 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,350 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,885 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,120 |
| 2015 | 15 | #5,742 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,557 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,532 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,152 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,759 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,169 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,660 |
Nicknames for Bastion
- Bas
Names like Bastion
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Beckett Baker Brixton Hudson Boston Colson Banks Easton Shepherd Wesson Bentley Stetson
Other spellings of Bastion
More English names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Bastion: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bastion, updated 20 October 2026.