Sebestyén

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Sebestyén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Sebastian.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 940K(measured from records)
  • HUHungary≈1 in 14K
  • RORomania≈1 in 34K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,100 people, est.

Sources
126 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sebestyen in US United States, DE Germany, AT Austria and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a male given name, equivalent to English Sebastian

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sebestyén counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Sebestyén is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈4,100 est.≈1 in 342K—Sebestyen2
HU Hungary≈720 est.≈1 in 14K77Sebestyen2
RO Romania≈630 est.≈1 in 34K—Sebestyen9
US United States3541 in 940K355Sebestyen126
DE Germany≈170 est.≈1 in 479K—Sebestyen46
AT Austria≈100 est.≈1 in 86K5Sebestyen21
FI Finland≈18 est.≈1 in 308K—Sebestyen1

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sebestyén is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Sebestyen, Šebestyen, Šebestyén

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania

    Also written Sebestyen

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sebestyèn, Sebestyen

  • Croatian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Sebestyen, Šebeštyen

  • Hindi name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Sebestyen

15 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Artúr Sebestyén, b. 1868Béla Sebestyén, b. 1885Georges Sébastian, b. 1903János Sebestyén, b. 1931Zoltán Sebestyén, b. 1943Victor Sebestyen, b. 1955Márta Sebestyén, b. 1957Zoltán Sebescen, b. 1975Júlia Sebestyén, b. 1981Dalma Sebestyén, b. 1997

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Sebestyén
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024)201180#97
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024)201377#99

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sebestyén mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name, equivalent to English Sebastian Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Sebestyén?
In the etymology graph, Bas is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Sebestyén have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Sebestyén in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sebestyen.
How common is the name Sebestyén?
In the United States, the national register counted 354 people named Sebestyén in 2010, about 1 in 940 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sebestyén”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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