Santonia
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Santonia has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1975, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 52% boys, 48% girls all-time.
Babies named Santonia, 1984
1 in 698,000
Santonia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Santonia over time
In 2001, Santonia went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Santonia?
Santonia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1984, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1984
- 1 in 698,000
- 5 of 3,488,451 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 361,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1984
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 483,603 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Santonia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1984 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 483,603 children born in 1984 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Santonia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Santonias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Santonia was born before 1975 — so the typical Santonia is around 50 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 54.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 11
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Santonia 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 1975 (6)
- Years since peak
- 50
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Santonia
Santonia is not the most common spelling — Antonio is, with 94.8% against Santonia's <0.01%.
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.
Santonia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Santonia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Santonia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.