Sebastián
A Greek name at root, meaning "venerable", here in its Spanish spelling with the accent. Barely a hundred men in Poland carry it, few enough that most people never meet one.
Sebastián Pronunciation
Sebastián is pronounced se-BAHS-teeán (/sɛˈbastián/).
What Sebastián means
Where Sebastián comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Sebastián reaches back to the Greek Sebastianos, "belonging to Sebaste." Sebaste was a city, and its name grew from sebastos, the Greek word for venerable. That word translated the Latin Augustus, the honour worn by Roman emperors. So the Polish gloss, czcigodny and dostojny, sits at the root of the name rather than being added later.
Much of the name's later life belongs to one man. Saint Sebastian was a Roman soldier martyred under Diocletian, and painters returned to his figure for centuries. His image spread. Later he was invoked against the plague, which kept his name alive in hard years. Poland marks his feast on 20 January, and boys named for him keep their imieniny then.
The accent on Sebastián marks the Spanish form, common across Spain and Latin America. Drop it and you have Sebastian, the variant a teacher reads from a Polish class register without a second glance. The venerable city stands behind both spellings.
How many people are named Sebastián
1 in 211348 men in Poland is named Sebastián. 101 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3438 among male names.
Sebastián as a middle name
Sebastián is a first name for 101 men in Poland and a middle name for another 44, a 70/30 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1188th, between Santino (44) and Spencer (44).
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#1186 Sandro44
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#1187 Santino44
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#1188 Sebastián44
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#1189 Spencer44
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#1190 Tarik44