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Santino

#353 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Santo

Santino has been given to 13,624 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #353 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 934 recorded.

Babies named Santino, 2025

1 in 3,550

Santino over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Santino: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Santo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Santino means

Santino is a diminutive of Santo.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Santino → Santo. The family’s meaning is “saint”, recorded in the naming reference for Santo.

Origin, language, and formation

Santino is used in English and Italian.

Santino comes through Italian Santino.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Santo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,624 boys were recorded with the name Santino between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 934 in 2025; its best national rank was #353 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #445 in 2020 to #353 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #607 in 2015 to #353 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Santino?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 3,550
934 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 1,830
0.05% of boys
Rank, 2025
#353
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,461 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Santino 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 2025 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 1003%
School of 50013%

Put another way: gather 2,461 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Santino. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Santinos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Santino was born before 2015 — so the typical Santino is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13,520
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (4,691).

Is Santino 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
+10
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+92
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+254
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (934)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#353
2025

Spellings of Santino

Santino is not the most common spelling — Santiago is, with 76.1% against Santino's 10.0%.

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 Santino is used

Across 2016–2025, Santino was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 704 boys, against 1 in 2,202 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 50,000).

2142 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 704
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 1,087
  3. 3Illinois1 in 1,136
  4. 4New York1 in 1,149
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 1,190
  6. 6California1 in 1,299
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 1,408
  8. 8Rhode Island1 in 1,408

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Geographically, Santino is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 91% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Santino around the world

Where Santino 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
    1996–2025
    #728
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1991–2022
    #522
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2020–2021
    #755
    in 2021
  • France
    1911–2025
    #1,031
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #622
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Santino

People whose public names include Santino, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Santino by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#353
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 92
Best rank ever
#353
2025
Peak year
2025
934 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,624
Count in 2025
934

Names similar to Santino

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

SanfordSantanaSantosSandersSandySanjaySantoSanchezSandroSantiagoValentinoSanderDelfinoSantielFaustinoPaulinoMarcelinoSantonioGinoSandraGabinoJustinoAvelinoMarino

Names with a curve like Santino

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Santino, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KamariRhysKianMathiasYusufLeandroMatthiasValentinoLucianoMarceloGianniSoren

Sibling names for Santino

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

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