Santos

Meaning: Saints
Origin: Spanish — From the word santos

Boy's name · #766 in the US (2025) · Trending

Popularity over time

Santos is climbing: on the charts since 1880, it is ranked #766 in 2025, with about 340 boys given the name last year. Roughly 19,000 have carried it all-time.

Across the states

In recent years, Santos ran about 6× its national rate in New Mexico.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 22 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

See how Santos ranks in other countries and regions.

#438 in Mexico (2024) · #914 in Poland (2025) · #951 in Ecuador (2025) · #2,144 in Sweden (2025) · #6,095 in France (2025) · #5,120 in England & Wales (2024) · #3,212 in Austria (2023) · #22,945 in Italy (2022) · #394 in Puerto Rico (2008).

Famous Santoses

Santos Iriarte — Uruguayan footballer (1902–1968)
Santos Urdinarán — Uruguayan footballer (1900–1979)
Santos Escobar — Mexican professional wrestler (born 1984)
Santos Abril y Castelló — Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church (born 1936)
Santos Casani — British ballroom dancer (1893–1983)

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 137,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

Juan Manuel Santos — President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018 (born 1951)
Alessandro Santos — Brazilian-born Japanese footballer (born 1977)
Djalma Santos — Brazilian footballer (1929–2013)

In stories & tradition

Santos Luzardo^es — Doña Bárbara (Spanish-language novel)

What Santoses become

Among 203 notable people named Santos:

Political leaders appear 1.69× more often than among typical names — e.g. Santos Gutiérrez, Colombian statesman and soldier (1820–1872).

Similar names: Aurelio · Santiel · Joan · Alvaro · Ignacio · Mariano

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