boys:
196 births since 2000
#4390 (4th percentile)
overall:
196 births since 2000
#7543 (3rd percentile)
The name Zebastian is the #7,543 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 196 recorded births since 2000. This represents the 2.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,390 (4.2% percentile) for all time with 196 births since 2000.
Zebastian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2000 (first recorded for boys in 2000). Birth data for Zebastian is available in 21 out of the 24 years between 2000 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, Zebastian reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #893) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Zebastian ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 83.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zebastian".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Zebastian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.2% confident that Zebastian is pronounced as zuh-BAS-chuhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zih-BAS-chuhn, at 16.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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