Santeria
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Santeria has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 1982. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1993, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Santeria, 1998
1 in 525,000
Santeria over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Santeria?
Santeria had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1998
- 1 in 525,000
- 7 of 3,677,189 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 252,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1998
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 364,120 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Santeria sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1998 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 364,120 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Santeria. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Santerias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Santeria was born before 1992 — so the typical Santeria is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 72.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 40
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 72.5% of all recorded uses (29).
Is Santeria rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1993 (7)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.0% average annual change
Spellings of Santeria
Santeria is not the most common spelling — Shanteria is, with 50.3% against Santeria's 2.9%.
Santeria by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Santeria
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Santeria
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.