Santos
Santos reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 763, and has been recorded 21,573 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 763rd. About 16,000 Santoses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Santos boys named Santos
Girls and boys called Santos
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Santos crossed from girls to boys in 1908, and has stayed there for 5 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 64% boys, and in 2025 it was 100%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 122 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 21,573
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 31
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 763rd
- Rank in 2025
- 763rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 2,759 / 18,814
How old the living Santoses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 21,573 babies given the name since 1880, about 16,000 are alive — 73 in every hundred. Roughly 4,500 of them are children and 2,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Santoss
- Santos Iriarte (1902–1968)Uruguayan footballer
- Santos Urdinarán (1900–1979)Uruguayan footballer
- Santos Abril y Castelló (born 1935)Catholic cardinal
- Enrique Santos Discépolo (1901–1951)Argentine composer, playwright
- José Santos Zelayo (1853–1919)President of Nicaragua from 1893 to 1909
- Santos González (born 1973)Spanish cyclist
- Santos Juliá (1940–2019)Spanish historian
- Santos Gutiérrez (1820–1872)Colombian statesman and soldier
People named Santos with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Santos is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Santos is most concentrated in Texas (7.0×), New Mexico (3.2×), Arizona (3.0×), California (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Santos peaked:
Santos elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Santos | 135 | 877th |
| England and Wales boys | Santos | 41 | 2,690th |
| Poland boys | Santos | 10 birth registrations | 729th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Santos among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Santos | 8 | 25 |
| Finland girls | Santos | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Santos lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 9,632 men called Santos were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ávila | Santos | 131 | 1.622 | 99 |
| Ciudad Real | Santos | 372 | 1.515 | 105 |
| Zamora | Santos | 122 | 1.488 | 107 |
| León | Santos | 318 | 1.458 | 109 |
| Soria | Santos | 62 | 1.353 | 104 |
| Salamanca | Santos | 215 | 1.351 | 113 |
Listed in 51 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 1 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Santos against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.