girls:
332 births since 1911
#5384 (6th percentile)
overall:
332 births since 1911
#7407 (4th percentile)
The name Sebastiana is the #7,407 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 332 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 4.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,384 (5.8% percentile) for all time with 332 births since 1911.
Sebastiana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (first recorded for girls in 1911). Birth data for Sebastiana is available in 41 out of the 113 years between 1911 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 girls, Sebastiana reached its peak popularity in 1914, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #502) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 18 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Sebastiana ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 16.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sebastiana".
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Our model has identified 28 different pronunciations for the name Sebastiana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 14.9% confident that Sebastiana is pronounced as suh-ba-stee-AH-nuh, which has 5 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sih-bas-CHAH-nuh, at 10.6% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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