# Santoro (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/santoro/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Italian.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Italian |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 8,713 |
| US rank (2010) | 4,076 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 35,435 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.5% (8,587 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Santoro.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Santoro in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 5.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.1% |
| Two or more races | 0.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Santoro in Brazil, Argentina and the United States.

## People named Santoro

- Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
- Miguel Ángel Santoro, Argentine footballer
- Cláudio Santoro, Brazilian composer (1919–1989)
- Gerri Santoro, American manslaughter victim (1935–1964)

## Similar surnames

Sander, Santora, Sandor, Santore, Sanders, Snyder, Schneider, Saunders, Snider, Sanderson, Smothers, Sunderland.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.