Bastian

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Bastian: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Bastian: Recorded since 1981, it reached #143 in 2016, and it stood at #148 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
58times a registrar ranked it
45years from first to last
#143highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 2008–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#2507
2011	#3300
2012	#2270
2013	#2954
2014	#1819
2015	#3373
2016	#1903
2017	#2324
2018	#3011
2019	#2488
2020	#2960
2021	#2730
2022	#1781
2023	#1799
2024	#2263

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 40 of the 45 years from 1981 to 2025.

In 2024: #151 among boys in Norway, #655 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #2263 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1981–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1981
First recorded at #629 among boys in Norway in 1981 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1981–2025
Highest recorded position: #143 among boys in Norway, in 2016 (recorded 1981–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #148 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Bastian appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 40 years beginning in 1981, and has registered 879 births with the name.

Bastian across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Bastian's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#629 (1981)	#143 (2016)	#148 (2025)	40 of 45	879 (1981–2025)	45 (2016)
England and Wales · Boys	#2507 (2008)	#1781 (2022)	#2263 (2024)	15 of 17	128 (2008–2024)	13 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#720 (2010)	#541 (2016)	#655 (2024)	3 of 15	12 (2010–2024)	5 (2016)

Bastian by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Bastian in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1980s	27	4 of 10	7
1990s	88	10 of 10	9
2000s	214	10 of 10	21
2010sbusiest	361	10 of 10	36
2020s	189	6 of 10	32

Across Norway · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 36 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Bastian appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1981 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #143 in Norway in 2016.

Bastian's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2263	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1799	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1781	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2730	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2960	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2488	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2324	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1903	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3373	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1819	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2270	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#148	36	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#151	35	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#146	38	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#204	22	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#155	32	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#169	26	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#214	22	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#147	42	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#157	38	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#143	45	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#145	44	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#190	30	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#197	28	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#155	40	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#152	42	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#183	30	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#199	29	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#256	18	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#217	23	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#194	27	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#195	27	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#233	20	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#234	20	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#239	18	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#253	18	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#293	14	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#276	15	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#356	10	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#458	6	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#408	8	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#410	8	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#387	9	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#330	12	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#392	9	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#516	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#561	5	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#524	6	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#418	10	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#483	7	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#629	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#541	5	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#720	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1981 and 2025, ranked in 40 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #143, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 45 births, registered in Norway in 2016.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 29 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Basma · #2090, 25y
Bassam · #2112, 13y
Batool · #1893, 25y
Batsheva · #1387, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Amie · #148, 45y
Andrius · #149, 36y
Conn · #150, 44y
Sylwia · #150, 37y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Martyna · #143, 41y
Winnie · #142, 34y
Daniella · #141, 39y
Kira · #140, 39y

Bastian was ranked #143 in Norway · Boys in 2016. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Bastian and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Bastian without appearing here.

Bastian moved ahead of

Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2730 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1799 and #4991.
Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3373 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #1903 and #4810.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1799 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2263 and #5119.
Barry Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2730 and #2301 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1781 and #4001.

Moved ahead of Bastian

Leif Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1819 and #1935 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #3373 and #1786.
Aksel Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1819 and #2079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #3373 and #1902.
Henrik Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1819 and #2690 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #3373 and #2020.
Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3011 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2488 and #2104.

Moved the opposite way to Bastian

Alexander Compare
Between 1981 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Bastian went from #629 to #148 while Alexander went from #50 to #81.
Anders Compare
Between 1981 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Bastian went from #629 to #148 while Anders went from #3 to #293.
Andreas Compare
Between 1981 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Bastian went from #629 to #148 while Andreas went from #12 to #96.
Arild Compare
Between 1981 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Bastian went from #629 to #148 while Arild went from #94 to #489.

Moved the same way as Bastian

Adam Compare
Between 1981 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Bastian went from #629 to #148 and Adam from #103 to #29.
Adrian Compare
Between 1981 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Bastian went from #629 to #148 and Adrian from #187 to #70.
Aksel Compare
Between 1981 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Bastian went from #629 to #148 and Aksel from #340 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1981 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Bastian went from #629 to #148 and Alfred from #429 to #26.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1981 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #143 in Norway in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bastian

Bastian at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bastian across 3 official records

Bastian by decade in Norway · Boys

Bastian appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Bastian

Bastian and the names beside it

Bastian moved ahead of

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Bastian at a glance

Bastian across 3 official records

Bastian by decade in Norway · Boys

Bastian appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Bastian

Bastian and the names beside it

Bastian moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bastian

Moved the opposite way to Bastian

Moved the same way as Bastian