Baby name
RARE
🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 Sebastiaan
/seh · BAS · tee · ahn/
Meaning
“Man from Sebaste”
Dutch form of Sebastian, from the Latin Sebastianus (man from Sebaste), Sebaste being a city in modern Turkey named for Emperor Augustus; the Dutch double-a in the final syllable is the orthographic marker.
Nicknames
bas · seb
Vibe
elegant
How it ages.
Ages beautifully; Sebastian in all its forms has extraordinary longevity and the Dutch spelling adds quiet distinction.
The cultural moment.
Consistently in the top 20 in the Netherlands from the 1990s through the 2010s; still widely used.