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Sebastien vs Sebrina

American parents have registered 4,057 Sebastiens since 1880, against 2,127 Sebrinas. Sebastien is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sebastien against Sebrina, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sebastien Sebrina

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 71 years in which either name was published, Sebastien for 37 years and Sebrina for 34 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Sebastien Sebrina
Total US births 4,0572,127
Most in one year 178141
Babies in 2025 55under 5
Estimated living today 4,0002,000
Median age today 1750
Peak year 20071970
Best rank 1,053rd boys916th girls
Rank in 2025 2,451stunranked
First recorded 19711955
Girls / boys 0 / 4,0572,127 / 0

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 Sebrinas alive today are over 50; half the Sebastiens are over 17. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Sebastien Sebrina
Ireland 2555

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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