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Santo

#3,642 in 2025Boys' name

Saint

Santo has been given to 4,876 babies in the U.S. since 1907. In 2025 it ranked #3,642 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1925, with 116 recorded.

Babies named Santo, 2025

1 in 107,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Santo: meaning, origin, and history

Saint

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Santo means

Santo means “saint”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,876 boys were recorded with the name Santo between 1907 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 116 in 1925; its best national rank was #571 in 1915.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,393 in 2020 to #3,642 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,424 in 2015 to #3,642 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.

How common is Santo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 55,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,642
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Santo 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Santo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Santos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Santo was born before 1945 — so the typical Santo is around 80 today.

Median birth year
1945
About 80 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,232
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 19.5% of all recorded uses (953).

Is Santo 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
−438
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+751
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,782
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.7%
Peak was 1925 (116)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#571
1915

Spellings of Santo

Santo is not the most common spelling — Dante is, with 33.3% against Santo's 3.1%.

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 Santo is used

Across 1910–2025, Santo was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 34,365 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 7,692
  2. 2Connecticut1 in 20,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 20,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 20,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Maryland1 in —

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. Santo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Santo around the world

Where Santo 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
    2014–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    1911–2025
    #1,829
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #1,705
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1949–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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.

Notable people named Santo

People whose public names include Santo, 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.

Santo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,642
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 751
Best rank ever
#571
1915
Peak year
1925
116 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,876
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Santo

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

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Names with a curve like Santo

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

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Sibling names for Santo

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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