Meaning not yet researched.
Santa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #723 in 1915.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #723 in 1915; #8,267 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Santa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,267 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1915, at #723.
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Santa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #723 in 1915 · most girls in one year: 89 (1923).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Santa, making it the 8,267th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,845 places from #5,422 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 24 girls named Santa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #723, reached in 1915. The most girls given the name in a single year was 89, in 1923. For comparison, it was #10,041 in 2015 and #1,247 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Santa in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 6 babies. In all, 4,410 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 744 babies named Santa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 112 US girls were named Santa; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Saint (7,476 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Santha are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Santha (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Santa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,267 | — | — |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,422 | — | — |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,893 | — | — |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,569 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,267 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,950 | — | — |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,254 | — | — |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,287 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,827 | — | — |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,720 | — | — |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,041 | — | — |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,182 | — | — |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,517 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,319 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,986 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,105 | — | — |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,878 | — | — |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,456 | — | — |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,696 | — | — |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,563 | — | — |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,000 | — | — |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,450 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,399 | — | — |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,752 | — | — |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,960 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,093 | — | — |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,159 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,316 | — | — |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,370 | — | — |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,032 | — | — |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,813 | — | — |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,353 | — | — |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,641 | — | — |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,350 | — | — |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,308 | — | — |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,656 | — | — |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,644 | — | — |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,809 | — | — |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,958 | — | — |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,619 | — | — |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,223 | — | — |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,215 | — | — |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,584 | — | — |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,075 | — | — |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,971 | — | — |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,895 | 5 | #6,900 |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,455 | — | — |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,127 | — | — |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,165 | — | — |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 1971 | 41 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 1970 | 50 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 1969 | 52 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 1966 | 44 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 1965 | 46 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 1960 | 52 | #1,554 | — | — |
| 1959 | 32 | #2,011 | 5 | #4,485 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 1957 | 56 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1956 | 44 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1954 | 62 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1952 | 44 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1951 | 48 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1950 | 55 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 1949 | 42 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1948 | 49 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1947 | 44 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,501 | 5 | #3,944 |
| 1945 | 44 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1944 | 27 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1942 | 47 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1941 | 30 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1938 | 41 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1937 | 41 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1936 | 48 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1934 | 48 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1933 | 48 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1932 | 36 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1931 | 54 | #952 | — | — |
| 1930 | 68 | #878 | — | — |
| 1929 | 54 | #991 | — | — |
| 1928 | 66 | #915 | — | — |
| 1927 | 71 | #891 | — | — |
| 1926 | 70 | #892 | 9 | #3,099 |
| 1925 | 82 | #826 | — | — |
| 1924 | 88 | #795 | — | — |
| 1923 | 89 | #778 | — | — |
| 1922 | 70 | #878 | — | — |
| 1921 | 74 | #860 | — | — |
| 1920 | 71 | #864 | — | — |
| 1919 | 74 | #820 | — | — |
| 1918 | 66 | #884 | 6 | #4,092 |
| 1917 | 74 | #806 | — | — |
| 1916 | 88 | #728 | — | — |
| 1915 | 85 | #723 | 5 | #4,304 |
| 1914 | 59 | #757 | — | — |
| 1913 | 40 | #838 | 5 | #3,190 |
| 1912 | 26 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1911 | 26 | #849 | — | — |
| 1910 | 18 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1908 | 20 | #909 | — | — |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,178 | — | — |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1904 | 16 | #931 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,186 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,558 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).