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Sebastiano vs Sebern

American parents have registered 1,005 Sebastianos since 1880, against 13 Seberns. Sebastiano is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sebastiano against Sebern, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sebastiano Sebern

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 85 years in which either name was published, Sebastiano for 84 years and Sebern for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Sebastiano Sebern
Total US births 1,00513
Most in one year 307
Babies in 2025 15under 5
Estimated living today 7301
Median age today 2292
Peak year 20061933
Best rank 3,451st boys3,004th boys
Rank in 2025 5,861stunranked
First recorded 19121931
Girls / boys 0 / 1,0050 / 13

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Seberns alive today are over 92; half the Sebastianos are over 22. That is 70 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sebastiano and Sebern.