Santiago

Santiago is the 238th most common surname in the United States, shared by 125,697 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,378.

By the numbers

People: 125,697
Rank: 238th
How common: 1 in 2,378
Per 100,000: 42.1

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 86.8%
White, not Hispanic 5.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.0%
Black, not Hispanic 1.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Santiago

Joey Santiago (born 1965)American guitarist
Miriam Defensor Santiago (1945–2016)Filipina politician, lawyer, and author
Agustín Rodríguez Santiago (born 1959)Spanish footballer
Nadia de Santiago (born 1990)actress
Leonardo Santiago (born 1983)Brazilian association footballer
Saundra Santiago (born 1957)American actress
Bea Rose Santiago (born 1990)Binibining Pilipinas-International 2013
Daniel Santiago (born 1976)Puerto Rican basketball player

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

Surnames like Santiago

Also a first name

Santiago has been given to 103,965 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2025. 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.