Sebestyen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sebestyen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ungar. Patronym zu Sebastian; 51 Träger.
- 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)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ungar. Patronym zu Sebastian; 51 Träger
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sebestyen 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 342K | — | Sebestyen | 2 |
| HU Hungary | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 77 | Sebestyen | 2 |
| RO Romania | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Sebestyen | 9 |
| US United States | 354 | 1 in 940K | 355 | Sebestyen | 126 |
| DE Germany | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 479K | — | Sebestyen | 46 |
| AT Austria | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 86K | 5 | Sebestyen | 21 |
| FI Finland | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 308K | — | Sebestyen | 1 |
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 355 | #61,138 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 355 | #54,385 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 354 | #57,516 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Sebestyen mean, and where does it come from?
- ungar. Patronym zu Sebastian; 51 Träger Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen.
- In which country does Sebestyen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Sebestyen in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sebestyen.
- How common is the name Sebestyen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 354 people named Sebestyen in 2010, about 1 in 940 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sebestyenThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sebestyen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.