Santi
Santi was given to 191 boys in 2025, #1,121 among boys’ names; 1,050 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Santi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 7.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Santi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Santi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Santi is “a male or female given name from Latin.”
/ˈsænti/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Santi?
#1,121 among boys’ names, 2025
Santi rose from #7,429 in 2015 to #1,121 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.01 to 0.11 per 1,000.
197 babies in 2025, the peak
Santi peaked in 2025, when 197 babies were given it (191 boys, #1,121 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 150 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 191 | #1,121 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 150 | #1,307 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 152 | #1,269 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 117 | #1,539 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,150 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,063 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 54 | #2,480 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 34 | #3,358 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,481 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,514 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,429 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,460 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,458 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,557 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,385 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,896 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,770 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,816 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,298 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,057 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,975 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,906 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,514 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,865 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,240 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,747 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,633 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,913 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,871 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,461 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,771 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,704 | under 0.01 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,605 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Santi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,050 Americans recorded as Santi, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls and 191 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Santi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Santi, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,050 Americans ever recorded as Santi. The median Santi alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 7.
The 2020 Census counted 1,184 people named Santi (332 women and girls, 852 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 295 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Santi rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 29 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 16 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 75 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 890 |
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 Santi born?
The states with the most babies named Santi are California, Texas and Georgia, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 43 | #654 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 27 | #930 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 10 | #911 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 9 | #921 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,335 | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 7 | #833 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,009 | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 6 | #834 | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 6 | #793 | 0.3× |
| Nevada | 6 | #503 | 0.7× |
Where Santi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Santi is most over-represented in California: since 1914 it was given 1.6 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 Santi 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,292 babies since 1880, Santi is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 197 of their 270 babies (73%), the 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 Santi
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 Santi and names like it
- Compare Santi and SantoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSanti peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Santi since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Santi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Santi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Santi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.