Santana — #811 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Santana

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,494 babies named Santana between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Santana currently holds the #811 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 522 babies received it in a single year. Santana is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5,849 additional births since 1910.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Santana performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,396 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Santana shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,193 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Santana in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Santana in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 7,494 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.