Santo
Santo is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 37 births. Its best rank was 571st, in 1915.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 370.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1925116 births
- Best rank
- #571in 1915
- Since 1907
- 4,844people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,844 boys have been named Santo in the United States since 1907, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 116 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Santo | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 21 | |
| 1910s | 612 | |
| 1920s | 953 | |
| 1930s | 642 | |
| 1940s | 416 | |
| 1950s | 396 | |
| 1960s | 434 | |
| 1970s | 356 | |
| 1980s | 245 | |
| 1990s | 234 | |
| 2000s | 225 | |
| 2010s | 154 | |
| 2020s | 156 |
In 1925, its biggest year
Santo was the 583rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1925 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Santo
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vitopeak 1925
- Salvadorepeak 1924
- Saveriopeak 1922
- Salvatorepeak 1927
- Gasperpeak 1917
- Burnellpeak 1920
- Yalepeak 1929
- Natalepeak 1915
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.