Meaning of the nameBastião
- Male
- Bas-ti-ão
Bastião is a male name recorded as a short form of Sebastião, but the origin of the name itself is not known for certain.
IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 851 people named Bastião, the 9,242nd most common name in Brazil. Their median age is 59, and the largest group was born in the 1960s.
Meaning
The meaning of Bastião is not known for certain. The sources consulted give no settled meaning for it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.
- People (2022)
- 851
- Rank in Brazil
- #9,242
- Median age
- 59 years
- 2010 Census
- 1,539
- people
Bastião in the 2022 Census
People with the first name Bastião, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1960s (206 people).
0 women 848 men
Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.
About the name Bastião
The origin of Bastião as a name is uncertain. The Portuguese Wiktionary records it as a hypocorism of Sebastião, and the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) lists Bastian as a Portuguese variant and Bastián as a Galician one. Sebastião comes, according to that Dictionary (which cites Machado, 1981), from the Latin Sebastianu, derived from the Greek sebastás, 'worthy of veneration'; the meaning of Sebastião does not automatically apply to Bastião, whose origin as a name is uncertain. IBGE does not record accents: the census spelling Bastiao corresponds to Bastião. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 851 people named Bastião, with a median age of 59.
Sources
- Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Bastião · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling
- Wikcionário: Bastião · pt.wiktionary.org · usage
- Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Sebastião · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
- Priberam: bastião · dicionario.priberam.org · usage
Questions about the name Bastião
What does the name Bastião mean?
The meaning of Bastião is not known for certain: the sources consulted give no settled meaning for it. So we give none; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.
How many people are named Bastião in Brazil?
IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 851 people with the first name Bastião, which ranks it number 9,242 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1960s.
Is Bastião a boy's or a girl's name?
Bastião is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 0 women and 848 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).
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