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Bastiaan - Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Bastiaan

[ syll. bas-tiaa(n), ba-stia-an ] The boy name Bastiaan is pronounced as BAESTIYAA-N †. Bastiaan is mainly used in Dutch and its language of origin is Old Greek. Bastiaan is a short form of the Dutch name Sebastiaan as well as a variation of the English, French, German, and Spanish name Sebastian.

Bastiaan is an uncommon baby name for boys. It is not in the top 1000 names. In 2008, among the group of boy names directly related to Bastiaan, Sebastian was the most regularly used.

Baby names that sound like Bastiaan include the name Bastiano, the French and Spanish Bastien, the Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slavic, and Ukrainian Bogdan, the name Boston, and the name Bostyn.



† approx English pronunciation for Bastiaan: B as in "be (B.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"


 
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