Sebastian (name)
Sebastian is a given name. It comes from the Greek name Sebastianos (Σεβαστιανός) meaning "from Sebastia" (Σεβάστεια), which was the name of the city now known as Sivas, located in the central portion of what is now Turkey; in Western Europe the name comes through the Latinized intermediary Sebastianus.[1][2] The name of the city is derived from the Greek word σεβαστός (sebastos), "venerable",[3] which comes from σέβας (sebas), "awe, reverence, dread",[4] in turn from the verb σέβομαι (sebomai), "feel awe, scruple, be ashamed".[5] Sebastos was the Greek calque of the title Augustus, which was used for Roman emperors. Sebastian became a widely used name because it was the name of Saint Sebastian, a third-century Christian martyr.
Saint Sebastian is largely responsible for use of this name. | |
Pronunciation | /səˈbæstʃən/ German: [zeˈbasti̯an] Romanian: [sebastiˈan] Spanish: [seβasˈtjan] |
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Gender | Male |
Origin | |
Word/name | Latin and Greek |
Meaning | "from Sebastia", "Augustus" |
Other names | |
Related names | Sebastián, Sébastien, Sebastião, Bastian, Bastien, Bas, Augustus |
The name has been increasing in popularity in different countries. In the United States, it was the 98th most popular name for boys born in 2008. It was the 86th most popular name for boys born in England and Wales in 2007, the 38th most popular name for boys born in Sweden in 2007, the 13th most popular name for boys born in Norway in 2007, the fifth most popular name for boys born in Chile in 2006, and was the 59th most popular name for boys born in New South Wales, Australia in 2007.[6]
Variants
- Croatian: Sebastijan,
- Czech: Sebastián, Šebestián
- Danish: Sebastian
- Dutch: Bas (diminutive), Sebastiaan, Bastiaan (diminutive)
- English: Bastian, Sebastian, Seb (diminutive)
- Finnish: Sebastian, Sepi, Seppo (diminutive)
- French: Bastien, Sébastien, Sébastienne (feminine)
- German: Bastian, Sebastian
- Greek: Sebastianos (Σεβαστιανός)
- Hungarian: Sebestyén
- Italian: Sebastiana (feminine), Sebastiano
- Latin: Sebastianus
- Lithuanian: Sebastijonas
- Malayalam: Devasia, Devassy (ദേവസ്യാ)
- Maltese: Bastjan
- Portuguese: Sebastião
- Romanian: Sebastian
- Russian: Sevastian (Cyrillic: Севастьян), Sevastyan
- Sicilian: Bastianu
- Slovene: Boštjan, Sebastijan, Sebastjan
- Spanish: Sebastián
- Swahili: Sebastiani
- Vietnamese: Sêbastianô
- Turkish: Sivaslı
People
Given name
- Sebastian, Danish musician
- Sebastian (rapper), brother of Timbaland
- Saint Sebastian, a Christian saint martyred in the 3rd century
- Sebastian of Portugal (1554–1578), the sixteenth king of Portugal and the Algarves
- Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain (1811–1875), Infante of Portugal (1811) and Infante of Spain (1824)
- Sébastien Akchoté-Bozović, French musician, also known as SebastiAn
- Sebastián Abreu, retired Uruguayan striker
- Sebastian Bach, Canadian heavy metal singer, former member of Skid Row
- Sebastian Bodu, Romanian politician
- Sebastian Brendel, German canoeist
- Sebastian Cabot (c. 1484–1557, or soon after), originally Sebastiano Caboto, Italian explorer
- Sebastian Cabot (1918–1977), British actor
- Sebastian Coe, British track and field athlete and Conservative Member of Parliament
- Sebastian Colloredo, Italian ski-jumper
- Sebastian Dance, British politician
- Sebastian Deisler (born 1980), German footballer
- Sebastian Edathy (born 1969), German politician
- Sebastian Faulks, British author
- Sebastian Fülle, German basketball player
- Sebastián Francini, Argentine actor
- Sebastian Giovinco, Italian footballer
- Sebastian Gutierrez (born 1974), Venezuelan film director and producer
- Sebastián Gutiérrez (footballer) (born 1997), Colombian footballer
- Sebastian Horsley, English artist
- Sebastian Ingrosso, member of the music group Swedish House Mafia
- Sebastian Janikowski, Polish-born American NFL football player
- Sebastian Joseph (born 1995), American football player
- Sebastian Karlsson (born 1985), Swedish singer
- Sebastian Kehl (born 1980), German footballer
- Sebastián Kindelán y Oregón (1763–1836), Spanish colonel of the Spanish Army and governor of East Florida, the Dominican Republic and Cuba
- Sebastian Koch (born 1962), German actor
- Sebastian Kurz (born 1986), Austrian politician
- Sébastien Loeb, rally car driver, 9 times world champion
- Sebastian Maniscalco, comedian
- Sebastian Melmoth, Oscar Wilde's pseudonym during his exile in France
- Sebastien Michaelis, French Inquisitor
- Sébastien Ogier, rally car driver, 4 times world champion
- Sebastian Papaiani, Romanian actor
- Sebastian Pasquali, Australian footballer
- Sebastián Piñera (born 1949), Chilean politician and current president of Chile
- Sebastián Prieto (born 1975), Argentinian tennis player
- Sebastian Prödl, Austrian defender
- Sebastian Roché (born 1964), French actor
- Sebastian Rode (born 1990), German football player
- Sebastián Rozental (born 1976), Chilean professional soccer player
- Sebastian Rudy, German midfielder
- Sebastian Sauve, American model
- Sebastian Schmitt, German basketball player
- Sebastian Świderski (born 1977), Polish volleyball player
- Sebastian Seeman, Indian Tamil film director and actor
- Sebastian Stan (born 1982), Romanian-American actor
- Sebastian Telfair, basketball player
- Sebastián Umegido, Mexican footballer
- Sebastián Vázquez (basketball) (born 1985), Uruguayan basketball player
- Sebastian Vettel, Formula One driver, 4 times world champion
- Sebastian Wiese (born 1972), German freestyle swimmer
- Sebastián (sculptor) (born 1947), artist based in Mexico
- Mr. Sebastian (1933–1996), professional name of body pierce artist Alan Oversby
- Sebastianus (magister peditum) (died 378), 4th-century Roman general, killed in the Battle of Adrianople
- Sebastianus (died 413), 5th-century usurper of the Western Roman Empire
- Sin With Sebastian (also known as Sebastian), German musician
Surname
- Cuthbert Sebastian (1921–2017), Governor-General of St. Kitts and Nevis from 1996 to 2013
- Dorothy Sebastian, American silent film actress
- Guy Sebastian, winner of the 2003 (first) series of Australian Idol
- Jaybee Sebastian (1980–2020), Filipino criminal
- Joan Sebastian (1951–2015), Mexican singer-songwriter, actor
- John Sebastian (1914−1980), American classical harmonica player and composer
- John Sebastian (born 1944), American songwriter, member of the Lovin' Spoonful
- Linus Sebastian (born 1986), a Canadian YouTube personality, presenter, producer, and founder of Linus Media Group
- Mihail Sebastian, Romanian writer
- Robin Sebastian, British actor
- Tim Sebastian (born 1952), British journalist
- Tim Sebastian (footballer), German defender
Other
- Belle & Sebastian, Scottish band
Fictional characters
- Sebastian (The Little Mermaid), a fictional crab featured in The Little Mermaid (1989) and related works
- Sebastian (Twelfth Night), one of the main characters from William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night
- Sebastian, the true name of the Narrator from the novel and film Fight Club
- Sebastian, Alexandra Cabot's cat in the Josie and the Pussycats comic book cartoon series
- Sebastian, freelance programmer and bachelor from the video game Stardew Valley
- Sebastian, Lili De Rochefort's butler in Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
- Sebastian, a character in William Shakespeare's play, The Tempest
- Sebastian Beach, the butler of Lord Emsworth and his family in the Blandings stories by P. G. Wodehouse
- Bastian Balthazar Bux, fictional lead in The Neverending Story series
- Sebastian Castellanos, the main character in The Evil Within series
- Sebastian "Bash" de Poitiers, a fictional character in Reign
- Sebastian De Rosa, fictional character in Alien vs. Predator
- Lord Sebastian Flyte, a character in Evelyn Waugh's novel, Brideshead Revisited
- Sebastian Hawks from Mike Leigh's movie Naked (1993)
- Sebastian Kydd, Carrie's love interest in The Carrie Diaries
- Sebastian LaCroix, leader of the L.A Camarilla in the video game Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
- Sebastian Michaelis, the demonic butler from the manga and anime Kuroshitsuji, a Black Butler main character
- Bass Monroe, nickname of Sebastian Monroe, the fictional President in Revolution
- Colonel Sebastian Moran, a Sherlock Holmes villain
- Hector Sebastian, fictional writer, who supposedly narrated later episodes of the Three Investigators
- J.F. Sebastian from Blade Runner (1982)
- Mr. Sebastian, a fictional codebreaker who is the main character in the film Sebastian (1968)
- Serena Sebastian, the English name of the anime character Sonoko Suzuki in the English adaptations of Detective Conan (Case Closed)
- Sebastian Shaw (comics), supervillain from Marvel Comics
- Sebastian Smythe, recurring character in the 3rd and 4th season of Glee
- Sebas Tian, the head butler in the anime and light novel Overlord
- Sebastian Vael, Prince of Starkhaven in Dragon Age II
- Sebastian Valmont, character in the film Cruel Intentions (1999)
- Sebastian Verlac, character in Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series novel City of Glass
- Sebastian Wilder from the film La La Land (2016)
- Sebastian Becker, main character in the Sebastian Becker series of novels by Stephen Gallagher - The Kingdom of Bones (2007), The Bedlam Detective (2012) and The Authentic William James (2016)
- Sebastian "Bash" Lacroix, main character in the Canadian television show Anne with an E (2017-2019)
Mascots
- Sebastian the Ibis, the mascot of the University of Miami
References
- Julia Cresswell (5 November 2007). Naming Your Baby: The Definitive Dictionary of First Names. A&C Black. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-7136-8313-4.
- Davis, J. Madison (1995). The Shakespeare Name and Place Dictionary. Routledge. p. 444. ISBN 978-1-884964-17-6.
- σεβαστός, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- σέβας, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- σέβομαι, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- Behind the Name