Sevastian
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- seh-vahs-tee-AHN
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Sevastian is a boys' name of Greek origin, meaning “venerable, revered”. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Sevastian mean?
Greek: Romanian, Greek and Russian form of Sebastian
“venerable, revered”
Sebastian comes from Greek sebastos, the Greek equivalent of the Roman title Augustus.
Is Sevastian a girl's or a boy's name?
Sevastian is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sevastian in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,906th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 210,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Sevastian, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 35 boys. It first appears in the records in 1988.
It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer boys named Sevastian than any year since 2018.
Half of all the boys named Sevastian in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sevastian in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,733 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,141 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,161 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,029 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,401 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,048 |
| 2015 | 20 | #4,709 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,888 |
| 2013 | 25 | #3,962 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,387 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,354 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,707 |
| 2009 | 19 | #4,920 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,219 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,791 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,219 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,811 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,002 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,109 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,939 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,056 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,144 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,036 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,259 |
| 1996 | 6 | #7,964 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,400 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,420 |
Names like Sevastian
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Sebastian, Cristian, Elian, Sullivan, Silas, Alessandro, Damian, Orion, Xander, Maximilian, Luca, Christian
More Greek names
Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe, Iris, Maisie
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, “Sevastian: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sevastian, updated 20 October 2026.