# Sebastiao (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sebastiao/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | 25, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4 | 3,865 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,023 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Sebastiao

- Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian photographer (1944–2025)
- Sebastião Lazaroni, Brazilian association football player and manager
- Sebastião Gilberto, Angolan footballer
- Sebastião Miranda da Silva Filho, Brazilian footballer (born 1952)
- José Sebastião de Almeida Neto, Catholic cardinal (1841−1920)
- Sebastião da Silveira Cintra, Catholic cardinal (1882-1942)
- Sebastião Pereira do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer
- José Sebastião Pires Neto, Brazilian footballer
- Murilo Ramos Krieger, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia and primate of Brazil
- Tim Maia, Brazilian singer, songwriter, producer, conductor and multi-instrumentalist (1942–1998)
- Sebá, Brazilian footballer
- Grande Otelo, Brazilian actor (1915–1993)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.