Santana

64,579 people in the United States were counted with the surname Santana in the 2020 census, making it the 510th most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,628.

By the numbers

People: 64,579
Rank: 510th
How common: 1 in 4,628
Per 100,000: 21.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Santana described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 90.5%
White, not Hispanic 6.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Santana

Carlos Santana (born 1947)American guitarist
Manuel Santana (1938–2021)Spanish tennis player
Telê Santana (1931–2006)Brazilian footballer and manager
Felipe Santana (born 1986)Brazilian footballer
Cléber Santana (1981–2016)Brazilian association football player
Joel Santana (born 1948)Brazilian association football player and manager
Jonathan Santana (born 1981)Paraguayan association football player
Luan Santana (born 1991)Brazilian singer-songwriter

People named Santana with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Santana

Also a first name

Santana has been given to 13,726 American babies as a first name since 1910, peaking in 2020. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.