Sebastião
Meaning
“Portuguese form of Sebastian, from Greek sebastos, revered; famously borne by Sebastiao Salgado, who documented laborers and landscapes across the world.”
Popularity, 1890–2024
Sebastião does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
Popularity in Brazil
344,228 people · the #79 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 590 · median age 62
Among people named Sebastião living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1950s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 600 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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