Sante
Sante was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,494 among boys’ names; 126 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sante by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sante mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sante is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sante?
#10,494 among boys’ names, 2025
Sante entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,494 in 2025.
8 babies in 1962, the peak
Sante peaked in 1962, when 8 boys were given it, #3,266 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,494 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,709 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,821 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,458 | 3.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,421 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,979 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #10,109 | 3.1 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,283 | 2.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,109 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,516 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 5 | #4,528 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,266 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,870 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,125 | 2.8 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,235 | 7.1 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,692 | 5.8 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,891 | 5.6 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,770 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,203 | 5.6 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,092 | 5.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,495 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sante a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sante has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sante: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sante, and how old are they?
An estimated 75 Americans named Sante and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 355 people named Sante (68 women and girls, 287 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 60 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,292 babies since 1880, Sante is the fourth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 270 babies (2.6%), again the fourth most given.
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.
More about Sante and names like it
- Compare Sante and SantoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sSante peaked in 1962.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Sante.
- Names starting with SMost given first.