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The first name 
Sebastain

Sebastain is a first name for boys.

Sebastain – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Sebastain in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Sebastain in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Sebastain by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Sebastain ranks at #6,007. That means there are 6,006 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Sebastain.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Sebastain

Sebastain -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Sebastain. Boys named Sebastain have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,333 Sebastain ranked higher than ever in 1962. By comparison, there have been 101 years in which the first name Sebastain has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1986. In general, parents name their sons Sebastain only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Sebastain was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Sebastain in 2022 – a precious jewel

In 2022, Sebastain continues to be a precious jewel: 11 newborns were named Sebastain that year, ranking #6,204 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Sebastain, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.

Sebastain -
at home in

Meeting a man or boy named Sebastain is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Sebastain can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Sebastain. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Sebastain living in one state or another. (If your name is Sebastain and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Sebastain is in California, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00003% of all male residents are called Sebastain – that’s just one in 3,266,336! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 men going by that name. So, if your name is Sebastain, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Sebastain has 9 letters 
and begins with an S

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.

With nine letters, the name Sebastain is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.

Other names with 
S, e, b, a, s, t, a, i and n

If you take all the letters in the name Sebastain – S, e, b, a, s, t, a, i and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Sabastien or Sebastian.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Sebastain

If your name is Sebastain and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Sebastain

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sebastain, you can simply say:

Sun

Elephant

Butterfly

Apple

Sun

Tiger

Apple

Igloo

Nut

This is how the name Sebastain is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Sebastain in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Sebastain

Sebastain

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Sebastain

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Sebastain is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

S
E
B
A
S
T
A
I
N

Have you ever waved the name Sebastain

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

S
E
B
A
S
T
A
I
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sebastain sounds like this: