Santee
Santee was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 74 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Santee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Santee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,998, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1977, the peak
Santee peaked in 1977, when 13 boys were given it, #3,171 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #11,998 | 3.5 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,768 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,745 | 2.8 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,770 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,061 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,089 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,592 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,171 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,948 | 5.7 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,126 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 5 | #4,344 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Santee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Santee has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 11 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Santee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Santee, and how old are they?
An estimated 69 Americans named Santee 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 191 people named Santee (54 women and girls, 137 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 3.2 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).
How common is the spelling Santee?
Santee is a less common spelling of Santi: SSA has recorded 74 Santee and 1,050 Santi since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,292 babies since 1880, Santee is the fifth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 270 babies recorded by SSA was a Santee (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Santee and names like it
- Compare Santee and SantiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sSantee peaked in 1977.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Santee.
- Names starting with SMost given first.