Sebastian

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of Sebastianus (see also -ian) [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Sebastianus

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Sebastianinpoika Finland
Sebastiansen Denmark Norway
Sebastianson Sweden
Sebastiansson Faroe Islands Iceland Sweden
Sebastiansøn Norway

Female

Sebastianintytär Finland
Sebastiansdatter Denmark Norway
Sebastiansdotter Sweden
Sebastiansdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Sebastian
Genitive: Sebastians
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Sebastian
Accusative: Sebastian
Dative: Sebastiani
Genitive: Sebastians
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Sebastian
Genitive: Sebastianin
Partitive: Sebastiania
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Sebastian
Accusative: Sebastian
Dative: Sebastian / Sebastiani
Genitive: Sebastians
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Sebastian
Genitive: Sebastians
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Sebastian
Genitive: Sebastians

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

20 January

Finland Finland

20 January

Norway Norway

20 January

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

20 January

Sweden Sweden

20 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 725 people were named Sebastian (percentage of first or only given name: 6 %) [7]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[8]
22129 38460 16 38 22113 38422
Denmark Denmark[9]
15538
n.a.
1
n.a.
15537
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
16686
n.a.
22
n.a.
16664
Iceland Iceland[11]
244 330
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
31 56
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
9776
n.a.
7
n.a.
9769
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Sebastian (m) Sources: [8][9][13][10]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Sebastian (m) Sources: [14]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Sebastian (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. details see Name Statistic tables