Sebastian

At the 2020 census, 14,178 Americans bore the surname Sebastian — 2,480th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 21,100.

By the numbers

People: 14,178
Rank: 2,480th
How common: 1 in 21,100
Per 100,000: 4.7

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sebastian described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 45.8%
Hispanic or Latino 29.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 18.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 2.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Sebastian

Guy Sebastian (born 1981)Australian singer-songwriter
Fernando Sebastián Aguilar (1929–2019)Spanish cardinal
Red Sebastian (born 1999)Belgian singer
Cuthbert Sebastian (1921–2017)British Colonial governor
John Sebastian (born 1944)American singer-songwriter and musician
Linus Sebastian (born 1986)Canadian YouTuber
Mihail Sebastian (1907–1945)Romanian writer
Jorge de Frutos Sebastián (born 1997)football player

People named Sebastian with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Sebastian has been given to 218,463 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 2016. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.