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Bastian

Boy's name · #1021 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave

Popularity over time

Bastian reached its best rank, #1002, in 2024 and ranked #1021 in 2025. About 2,600 boys have carried it since 1991.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 18 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#15 in Argentina (2025) · #110 in Ecuador (2025) · #148 in Norway (2025) · #276 in Puerto Rico (2025) · #293 in Poland (2025) · #437 in Sweden (2025) · #492 in Mexico (2024) · #551 in Austria (2025) · #808 in Switzerland (2025) · #1,479 in France (2025) · #2,471 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,344 in Canada (2024).

Famous Bastians

• Bastian Schweinsteiger — German association football player
• Bastian Oczipka — German footballer
• Bastian Steger — German table tennis player
• Bastian Reinhardt — German footballer
• Bastian Dankert — Football referee

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 7,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

• Adolf Bastian — German anthropologist (1826–1905)
• Henry Charlton Bastian — British biologist (1837–1915)
• Gert Bastian — German general and politician (1923–1992)

In stories & tradition

• Bastian Balthazar Bux^it — The Neverending Story (book)
• Bastian — Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (video game)

What Bastians become

Among 589 notable people named Bastian:

Similar names: Zeus · Baylen · Niklaus · Gian · Octavian · Yohan

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