Santino
Santino was given to 934 boys in 2025, #353 among boys’ names; 13,624 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,300 Americans named Santino and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Santino by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Santino mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Santino is “a male given name.”
Borrowed from Italian Santino.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Santino?
#353 among boys’ names, 2025
Santino rose from #607 in 2015 to #353 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.23 to 0.55 per 1,000.
934 babies in 2025, the peak
Santino peaked in 2025, when 934 boys were given it, #353 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 910 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 934 | #353 | 0.55 |
| 2024 | 910 | #363 | 0.53 |
| 2023 | 759 | #416 | 0.44 |
| 2022 | 679 | #453 | 0.39 |
| 2021 | 738 | #416 | 0.42 |
| 2020 | 671 | #445 | 0.39 |
| 2019 | 592 | #488 | 0.33 |
| 2018 | 539 | #528 | 0.30 |
| 2017 | 447 | #600 | 0.24 |
| 2016 | 439 | #614 | 0.23 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 448 | #607 | 0.23 |
| 2014 | 416 | #632 | 0.22 |
| 2013 | 386 | #640 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 402 | #613 | 0.21 |
| 2011 | 358 | #661 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 368 | #657 | 0.19 |
| 2009 | 353 | #688 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 371 | #656 | 0.18 |
| 2007 | 330 | #706 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 329 | #687 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 234 | #810 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 239 | #761 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 201 | #859 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 178 | #907 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 147 | #1,015 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 142 | #1,030 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 118 | #1,122 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 121 | #1,075 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 120 | #1,059 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 108 | #1,109 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,441 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 89 | #1,224 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 82 | #1,254 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 98 | #1,111 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,245 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,229 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 67 | #1,342 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 69 | #1,232 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 51 | #1,434 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 53 | #1,354 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 42 | #1,563 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 77 | #1,018 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 51 | #1,310 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 38 | #1,617 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,152 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 42 | #1,490 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 50 | #1,316 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,237 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 33 | #1,662 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,162 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 67 | #1,006 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 42 | #1,330 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 49 | #1,184 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 41 | #1,322 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,323 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,638 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,204 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,967 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,976 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,713 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,452 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,726 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,111 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,901 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,216 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,907 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,208 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,608 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,837 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,139 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,467 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Santino a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Santino has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Santino: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Santino, and how old are they?
13,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 13,624 Americans ever recorded as Santino. The median Santino alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 7,673 people named Santino (29 women and girls, 7,644 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,868 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 382 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,950 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,900 |
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 Santino born?
The states with the most babies named Santino are California, New York and New Jersey, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 206 | #189 | 1.7× |
| New York | 123 | #156 | 1.8× |
| New Jersey | 76 | #130 | 2.5× |
| Texas | 69 | #493 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 64 | #185 | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 45 | #268 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 38 | #488 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 34 | #241 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 25 | #361 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 25 | #437 | 1.1× |
Where Santino is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Santino is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1913 it was given 2.5 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 Santino 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 28,300 babies since 1880, Santino is the second most given (48% of them). In 2025 it was given to 934 of their 1,322 babies (71%), 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 Santino
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 Santino and names like it
- Compare Santino and SantanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSantino peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Santino since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Santino.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Santino alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.