Bastian

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Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of Sebastian (see Sebastianus, see also -ian) [1] [2]

Related Names

Bastian
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Bastían
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Icelandic

See also Baste

For female forms see Bastiana, Bastina

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bastiansen Norway
Bastiansson Faroe Islands

Female

Bastiansdatter Norway
Bastiansdóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Bastian
Genitive: Bastians
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Bastian
Accusative: Bastian
Dative: Bastiani
Genitive: Bastians
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Bastian
Genitive: Bastianin
Partitive: Bastiania
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Bastian
Genitive: Bastians
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Bastian
Genitive: Bastians

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

20 January

Norway Norway

20 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 10 people were named Bastian (percentage of first or only given name: 10 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[7]
2616
n.a.
0
n.a.
2616
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[8]
798 1090 3 15 795 1075
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
181 0 0
n.a.
181
Greenland Greenland[10]
11 73
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
5 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
730
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
730
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Bastian (m) Sources: [8][7][12][9]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Bastian (m) Sources: [13]


References

  1. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  4. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  5. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. details see Name Statistic tables