Santiaga

Girls' name

From Spanish Santiaga; literal meaning unconfirmed

Santiaga has been given to 71 babies in the U.S. since 1920. 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 1922, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Santiaga, 1947

1 in 515,000

Santiaga over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Santiaga: meaning, origin, and history

From Spanish Santiaga; literal meaning unconfirmed

Spanish

What Santiaga means

Santiaga is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Santiaga is used in English. Its origins include Spanish.

Santiaga comes through Spanish Santiaga.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 71 girls were recorded with the name Santiaga between 1920 and 1947. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1922; its best national rank was #3,615 in 1922.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Santiaga?

Santiaga had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1947, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1947: 1 in 515,000; 7 of 3,602,100 births
Among girls only: 1 in 253,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1947: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 356,685 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Santiaga sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1947 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 356,685 children born in 1947 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Santiaga. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Santiagas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Santiaga was born before 1926 — so the typical Santiaga is around 99 today.

Median birth year: 1926; About 99 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 59.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 78.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 59.2% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Santiaga 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 1922 (9)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 13.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,615; 1922

Spellings of Santiaga

Santiaga is not the most common spelling — Santana is, with 65.2% against Santiaga's 0.78%.

Santana65.2%5,941
Santina34.0%3,102
Santiaga0.78%71

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.

Where Santiaga is used

Across 1910–2025, Santiaga was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 266,976 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Santiaga has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Santiaga by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,615; 1922
Peak year: 1922; 9 that year
First recorded: 1920
Last recorded: 1947
All-time count: 71
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Santiaga

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

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Sibling names for Santiaga

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

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Elvera Rubie Tressie Filomena

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Elden Cletus Elroy Columbus

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