# Santiago (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/santiago/  
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 | 103,965 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 103,828 / 137 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,991, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 5 | 11,638 |
| 1988 | 5 | 13,425 |
| 1989 | 9 | 8,603 |
| 2000 | 5 | 17,094 |
| 2002 | 7 | 13,360 |
| 2009 | 12 | 9,879 |
| 2012 | 7 | 14,718 |
| 2014 | 5 | 18,754 |
| 2016 | 13 | 8,794 |
| 2017 | 6 | 15,614 |
| 2018 | 5 | 17,714 |
| 2019 | 13 | 8,530 |
| 2021 | 6 | 14,970 |
| 2023 | 7 | 13,231 |
| 2025 | 6 | 14,642 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3,070 | 131 |
| 2012 | 3,050 | 122 |
| 2013 | 3,032 | 126 |
| 2014 | 3,426 | 117 |
| 2015 | 3,219 | 127 |
| 2016 | 3,719 | 106 |
| 2017 | 4,204 | 93 |
| 2018 | 4,670 | 82 |
| 2019 | 5,047 | 70 |
| 2020 | 4,687 | 71 |
| 2021 | 5,076 | 63 |
| 2022 | 6,036 | 49 |
| 2023 | 6,358 | 45 |
| 2024 | 7,434 | 29 |
| 2025 | 7,554 | 26 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 45 | 701 |
| 2012 | 77 | 492 |
| 2013 | 68 | 538 |
| 2014 | 85 | 463 |
| 2015 | 102 | 410 |
| 2016 | 100 | 420 |
| 2017 | 94 | 448 |
| 2018 | 98 | 427 |
| 2019 | 122 | 362 |
| 2020 | 113 | 377 |
| 2021 | 123 | 367 |
| 2022 | 145 | 311 |
| 2023 | 147 | 301 |
| 2024 | 158 | 285 |
| 2025 | 153 | 296 |

## People named Santiago

- Santiago Peña, 52th President of Paraguay (2023–2026)
- Santiago Arias, Colombian association football player
- Santiago Rusiñol i Prats, Catalan author and painter; (1861-1931)
- Santiago Solari, Argentine footballer and manager
- Santiago Mele, association football player
- Santiago Ascacíbar, Argentinian association football player
- Santiago Giraldo, Colombian tennis player
- Santiago García, Argentine footballer (1988-)
- Santiago Botero, Colombian cyclist
- Santiago Gentiletti, Argentine footballer
- Santiago Santamaría, Argentine footballer (1952-2013)
- Santiago Lange, Argentine sailor

## 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.