boys:
262 births since 2002
#4324 (6th percentile)
overall:
262 births since 2002
#7477 (3rd percentile)
The name Bastion is the #7,477 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 262 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 3.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,324 (5.7% percentile) for all time with 262 births since 2002.
Bastion first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (first recorded for boys in 2002). Birth data for Bastion is available in 17 out of the 22 years between 2002 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Bastion reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #889) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Bastion ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 57.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bastion".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Bastion. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Bastion is pronounced as BAS-chuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BA-stee-uhn, at 25.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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