Santana
Santana is given to both girls and boys: 92 girls and 285 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,060 among girls’ names and #855 among boys’, #1,438 among all names counting both); 13,726 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Santana every year since 2003.
An estimated 13,300 Americans named Santana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 7 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Santana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Santana?
#855 among boys’ names, 2025
Santana rose from #870 in 2015 to #855 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.13 to 0.17 per 1,000.
654 babies in 2021, the peak
Santana peaked in 2021, when 654 babies were given it (489 boys, #572 among boys’ names). The 377 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 58% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #2,060 | 285 | #855 |
| 2024 | 107 | #1,882 | 312 | #811 |
| 2023 | 142 | #1,518 | 403 | #677 |
| 2022 | 105 | #1,916 | 385 | #690 |
| 2021 | 165 | #1,345 | 489 | #572 |
| 2020 | 131 | #1,604 | 522 | #544 |
| 2019 | 127 | #1,665 | 404 | #656 |
| 2018 | 117 | #1,759 | 326 | #735 |
| 2017 | 102 | #1,962 | 237 | #906 |
| 2016 | 112 | #1,853 | 262 | #862 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 119 | #1,766 | 256 | #870 |
| 2014 | 106 | #1,905 | 244 | #887 |
| 2013 | 89 | #2,135 | 205 | #979 |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,541 | 163 | #1,128 |
| 2011 | 80 | #2,343 | 152 | #1,171 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,403 | 149 | #1,204 |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,121 | 185 | #1,038 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,917 | 174 | #1,079 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,638 | 188 | #1,015 |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,125 | 224 | #883 |
| 2005 | 85 | #2,176 | 135 | #1,188 |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,131 | 114 | #1,306 |
| 2003 | 81 | #2,158 | 132 | #1,146 |
| 2002 | 108 | #1,705 | 99 | #1,339 |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,931 | 104 | #1,277 |
| 2000 | 196 | #1,061 | 124 | #1,125 |
| 1999 | 130 | #1,366 | 104 | #1,221 |
| 1998 | 137 | #1,303 | 82 | #1,401 |
| 1997 | 139 | #1,269 | 87 | #1,316 |
| 1996 | 135 | #1,285 | 68 | #1,494 |
| 1995 | 132 | #1,275 | 71 | #1,408 |
| 1994 | 166 | #1,087 | 82 | #1,290 |
| 1993 | 160 | #1,123 | 57 | #1,591 |
| 1992 | 235 | #849 | 37 | #2,117 |
| 1991 | 175 | #1,046 | 30 | #2,384 |
| 1990 | 168 | #1,059 | 34 | #2,152 |
| 1989 | 172 | #1,003 | 25 | #2,597 |
| 1988 | 166 | #995 | 35 | #1,901 |
| 1987 | 227 | #784 | 23 | #2,452 |
| 1986 | 383 | #535 | 39 | #1,660 |
| 1985 | 385 | #522 | 30 | #1,959 |
| 1984 | 214 | #757 | 39 | #1,573 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,970 | 22 | #2,325 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,140 | 27 | #2,050 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,495 | 21 | #2,401 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,476 | 29 | #1,955 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,171 | 29 | #1,900 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,480 | 23 | #2,116 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,809 | 27 | #1,897 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,923 | 37 | #1,495 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,345 | 30 | #1,693 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,272 | 33 | #1,540 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,789 | 36 | #1,429 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,482 | 43 | #1,284 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,755 | 35 | #1,462 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 11 | #3,037 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #4,912 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,637 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 7 | #3,495 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,883 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 5 | #4,343 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 7 | #3,553 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 6 | #3,980 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 12 | #2,482 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,565 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 5 | #4,515 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 9 | #3,006 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 5 | #4,465 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 8 | #3,167 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 8 | #3,169 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #4,286 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 5 | #4,261 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 6 | #3,628 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 7 | #3,278 | |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,988 | 5 | #4,182 |
| 1946 | under 5 | 6 | #3,474 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 7 | #2,957 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 9 | #2,607 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 7 | #3,125 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 8 | #2,819 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 5 | #4,071 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 7 | #3,233 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 5 | #4,205 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 8 | #3,250 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 8 | #3,207 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 6 | #4,082 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 9 | #3,110 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #4,110 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 6 | #4,122 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 9 | #3,215 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,786 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 9 | #3,207 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 8 | #3,448 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 6 | #4,096 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 5 | #4,703 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,763 | |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,735 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Santana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,726 Americans recorded as Santana, 43% are girls and 57% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Santana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Santana, and how old are they?
13,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 13,726 Americans ever recorded as Santana. The median Santana alive today is 17 years old; half are between 7 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 9,527 people named Santana (4,806 women and girls, 4,721 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,443 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 70 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 449 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,800 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Santana born?
The states with the most babies named Santana are California, Texas and Arizona, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 71 | #563 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 57 | #675 | 1.1× |
| Arizona | 20 | #485 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 15 | #671 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 14 | #672 | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 14 | #436 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,183 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 11 | #617 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 10 | #720 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 8 | #999 | 0.7× |
Where Santana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Santana is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 4.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Santana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 27,350 babies since 1880, Santana is the most given (50% of them). In 2025 it was given to 377 of their 1,311 babies (29%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Santana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Santana and names like it
- Compare Santana and SantinoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSantana peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Santana since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Santana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Santana alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.