Sebaste as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Sebaste

What is the meaning of the name Sebaste ?

The baby name Sebaste is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced /səˈbæs.ti/ (suh-BAS-tee).

Sebaste is Greek in Origin.

Sebaste stems from Greek Sebastē (Σεβαστή), the feminine form of Sebastos, “venerable, august,” the counterpart of the Latin imperial honorific Augustus/Augusta. In the Hellenistic and Roman East, Sebastē named several cities dedicated to the emperor - most famously Samaria-Sebaste and the Armenian-Minor city famed for the Forty Martyrs - so the ethnic Sebastianos “man of Sebaste” produced the widely used given name Sebastian. In Byzantine usage, Sebastē also served as a courtly style for empresses and high-ranking women.

As a given name, Sebaste is rare yet transparent in sense: “revered, majestic.” Related forms include modern Greek Sevasti (Sevastí) and Sevastiana, as well as Sebastiana and the French Sébastienne; masculine relatives are Sebastian, Sebastiano, Sebastián, Sébastien, and Sebastião, with short forms Bas, Bastian, and Bastien. Sometimes rendered Sebastē in scholarly transliteration. Usable across languages, it carries dignified classical gravitas without the ubiquity of Sebastian.

⚙ Sebaste is about as rare as a name gets. We hold just 7 recorded uses of it, from 4 countries.