Santy
Santy was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,366 among boys’ names; 166 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Santy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Santy?
#3,366 among boys’ names, 2025
Santy entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #3,366 in 2025.
35 babies in 2025, the peak
Santy peaked in 2025, when 35 boys were given it, #3,366 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 21 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,366 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,847 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,032 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,818 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,604 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,405 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,544 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,510 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,712 | 4.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,522 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #12,886 | 2.5 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,852 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Santy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Santy has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Santy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Santy, and how old are they?
An estimated 160 Americans named Santy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 6. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 297 people named Santy (124 women and girls, 173 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 43 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.9 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).
How common is the spelling Santy?
Santy is a less common spelling of Santi: SSA has recorded 166 Santy and 1,050 Santi since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,292 babies since 1880, Santy is the third most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 270 babies (13%), the second 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 Santy
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 Santy and names like it
- Compare Santy and SantiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSanty peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Santy since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Santy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Santy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.