Santhosh

Boys' name

Form of Santosh

Santhosh has been given to 60 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 2002, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Santhosh, 2014

1 in 530,000

Santhosh over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Santhosh: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Santosh

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Santhosh means

Santhosh is a form of Santosh.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Santhosh is used in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Santhosh → Santosh → संतोष. The family’s meaning is “together + satisfaction”, recorded in Sanskrit with the source elements सम्- and तोष.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Goddess Santhoshi Mata. It also mean happiness in many Indian languages including Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Hindi.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Santhosh (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Santhosh is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Santosh.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 60 boys were recorded with the name Santhosh between 1999 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2002; its best national rank was #9,203 in 2002.

How common is Santhosh?

Santhosh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014: 1 in 530,000; 7 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only: 1 in 274,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 367,053 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Santhosh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 367,053 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Santhosh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Santhoshs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Santhosh was born before 2009 — so the typical Santhosh is around 16 today.

Median birth year: 2009; About 16 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 48.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 60; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 48.3% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Santhosh 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2002 (7)
Years since peak: 23; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 11.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #9,203; 2002

Spellings of Santhosh

Santhosh is not the most common spelling — Santos is, with 99.7% against Santhosh's 0.32%.

Santos99.7%18,814
Santhosh0.32%60

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Santhosh around the world

Where Santhosh ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1998–2022
#4,790
in 2022
France
2006–2022
#5,774
in 2022
Canada
2002–2011
#2,366
in 2011
South Australia
2011–2011
#784
in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Santhosh by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #9,203; 2002
Peak year: 2002; 7 that year
First recorded: 1999
Last recorded: 2014
All-time count: 60
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Santhosh

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Santosh Santiano Sandler Santford Santigo Santanna Sanderson Sanvith Santario Sanmay Sanji Sanjaya Ashutosh Sankalp Santrell Santonio Sanjith Sanjuan Sanskar Santonia Santee Sante Santhiago Santwan

Sibling names for Santhosh

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Iyana Alize Lisbeth Vanesa Kaiya Anastacia Delanie Magaly

For a brother

Dallin Zakary Keyon Kelton Donavan Alexandre Jaylon Jaylin

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