# Santos (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/santos/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | Italian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 21,573 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 18,814 / 2,759 (13% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 41, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Romance (Spanish Santos, Portuguese Santos, Italian Santos).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 8 | 10,049 |
| 1992 | 10 | 8,599 |
| 1993 | 11 | 7,940 |
| 1994 | 6 | 13,083 |
| 1997 | 12 | 7,643 |
| 1998 | 10 | 9,151 |
| 2000 | 7 | 12,882 |
| 2001 | 5 | 17,424 |
| 2002 | 7 | 13,361 |
| 2003 | 7 | 13,565 |
| 2004 | 8 | 12,540 |
| 2005 | 5 | 18,651 |
| 2006 | 5 | 19,511 |
| 2007 | 5 | 19,999 |
| 2008 | 5 | 19,940 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 230 | 896 |
| 2012 | 212 | 956 |
| 2013 | 242 | 874 |
| 2014 | 237 | 908 |
| 2015 | 236 | 914 |
| 2016 | 215 | 962 |
| 2017 | 208 | 985 |
| 2018 | 205 | 1,011 |
| 2019 | 220 | 975 |
| 2020 | 244 | 918 |
| 2021 | 274 | 857 |
| 2022 | 277 | 871 |
| 2023 | 314 | 796 |
| 2024 | 297 | 836 |
| 2025 | 337 | 766 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 4 | 3,385 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3,315 |
| 2014 | 7 | 2,690 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |

## People named Santos

- Santos Abril y Castelló, Catholic cardinal
- Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentine composer, playwright (1901-1951)
- Santos Gutiérrez, Colombian statesman and soldier (1820-1872)
- Santos Amador, bolivian footballer and manager
- Santos León Herrera, Costa Rican politician
- Jean-Santos Muntubila, Democratic Republic of the Congo footballer
- Santos Benigno Laciar, Argentine boxer, former world champion
- Matheus Cunha, Brazilian association football player do brazilian player (born 1999)

## 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.