# Santhosh (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/santhosh/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 60 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 60 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 68, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | 11,305 |
| 2002 | 7 | 9,210 |
| 2006 | 5 | 13,656 |
| 2008 | 7 | 10,822 |
| 2009 | 7 | 10,774 |
| 2010 | 7 | 10,556 |
| 2011 | 5 | 13,983 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,861 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,714 |
| 2014 | 7 | 10,527 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 3 | 2,901 |
| 2003 | 4 | 2,857 |
| 2004 | 5 | 2,578 |
| 2005 | 4 | 3,208 |
| 2007 | 7 | 2,435 |
| 2008 | 4 | 3,687 |
| 2009 | 6 | 2,837 |
| 2010 | 4 | 3,865 |
| 2011 | 8 | 2,390 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2013 | 7 | 2,660 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.