Santos — #830 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Santos

The Social Security Administration has registered 18,473 babies named Santos between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Santos currently holds the #830 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 314 babies received it in a single year. Santos is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,759 additional births since 1885.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Santos performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 2,613 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Santos shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 7,334 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Santos in 30 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Santos in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 18,473 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.