Meaning not yet researched.
Santo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #571 in 1915.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #571 in 1915; #3,643 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Santo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,643 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1915, at #571.
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Santo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 boys in 2025. Peak: #571 in 1915 · most boys in one year: 116 (1925).
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Santo, making it the 3,643rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 437 places from #3,206 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 38 boys named Santo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #571, reached in 1915. The most boys given the name in a single year was 116, in 1925. For comparison, it was #10,430 in 2015 and #1,217 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Santo in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1907 with 5 babies. In all, 4,876 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 953 babies named Santo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 257 US boys were named Santo; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,099 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Saint (7,476 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Santoya and Santoi 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Santoya (22), Santoi (5).
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 Santo 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 | — | — | 31 | #3,643 |
| 2024 | — | — | 38 | #3,206 |
| 2023 | — | — | 42 | #2,993 |
| 2022 | — | — | 26 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | — | — | 28 | #3,899 |
| 2020 | — | — | 23 | #4,397 |
| 2019 | — | — | 15 | #6,053 |
| 2018 | — | — | 16 | #5,733 |
| 2017 | — | — | 17 | #5,486 |
| 2016 | — | — | 21 | #4,748 |
| 2015 | — | — | 7 | #10,430 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #6,982 |
| 2013 | — | — | 16 | #5,610 |
| 2012 | — | — | 17 | #5,446 |
| 2011 | — | — | 14 | #6,196 |
| 2010 | — | — | 19 | #5,003 |
| 2009 | — | — | 25 | #4,139 |
| 2008 | — | — | 12 | #7,112 |
| 2007 | — | — | 29 | #3,677 |
| 2006 | — | — | 20 | #4,647 |
| 2005 | — | — | 16 | #5,237 |
| 2004 | — | — | 29 | #3,356 |
| 2003 | — | — | 20 | #4,250 |
| 2002 | — | — | 24 | #3,648 |
| 2001 | — | — | 29 | #3,129 |
| 2000 | — | — | 21 | #3,889 |
| 1999 | — | — | 18 | #4,126 |
| 1998 | — | — | 19 | #3,821 |
| 1997 | — | — | 22 | #3,330 |
| 1996 | — | — | 24 | #3,090 |
| 1995 | — | — | 29 | #2,615 |
| 1994 | — | — | 30 | #2,549 |
| 1993 | — | — | 24 | #2,929 |
| 1992 | — | — | 27 | #2,654 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,204 |
| 1990 | — | — | 21 | #3,044 |
| 1989 | — | — | 30 | #2,286 |
| 1988 | — | — | 24 | #2,498 |
| 1987 | — | — | 23 | #2,457 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,620 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,359 |
| 1984 | — | — | 30 | #1,879 |
| 1983 | — | — | 23 | #2,262 |
| 1982 | — | — | 25 | #2,158 |
| 1981 | — | — | 34 | #1,722 |
| 1980 | — | — | 29 | #1,956 |
| 1979 | — | — | 33 | #1,749 |
| 1978 | — | — | 47 | #1,348 |
| 1977 | — | — | 30 | #1,769 |
| 1976 | — | — | 29 | #1,776 |
| 1975 | — | — | 31 | #1,654 |
| 1974 | — | — | 43 | #1,304 |
| 1973 | — | — | 39 | #1,349 |
| 1972 | — | — | 32 | #1,532 |
| 1971 | — | — | 35 | #1,463 |
| 1970 | — | — | 37 | #1,393 |
| 1969 | — | — | 46 | #1,163 |
| 1968 | — | — | 54 | #1,015 |
| 1967 | — | — | 34 | #1,309 |
| 1966 | — | — | 42 | #1,157 |
| 1965 | — | — | 45 | #1,123 |
| 1964 | — | — | 35 | #1,347 |
| 1963 | — | — | 53 | #1,047 |
| 1962 | — | — | 46 | #1,144 |
| 1961 | — | — | 32 | #1,432 |
| 1960 | — | — | 47 | #1,150 |
| 1959 | — | — | 34 | #1,358 |
| 1958 | — | — | 52 | #1,070 |
| 1957 | — | — | 40 | #1,246 |
| 1956 | — | — | 40 | #1,213 |
| 1955 | — | — | 40 | #1,195 |
| 1954 | — | — | 43 | #1,150 |
| 1953 | — | — | 34 | #1,303 |
| 1952 | — | — | 31 | #1,376 |
| 1951 | — | — | 46 | #1,064 |
| 1950 | — | — | 36 | #1,217 |
| 1949 | — | — | 45 | #1,061 |
| 1948 | — | — | 50 | #999 |
| 1947 | — | — | 43 | #1,115 |
| 1946 | — | — | 46 | #1,014 |
| 1945 | — | — | 28 | #1,264 |
| 1944 | — | — | 41 | #1,035 |
| 1943 | — | — | 39 | #1,101 |
| 1942 | — | — | 40 | #1,087 |
| 1941 | — | — | 46 | #949 |
| 1940 | — | — | 38 | #1,062 |
| 1939 | — | — | 53 | #843 |
| 1938 | — | — | 60 | #806 |
| 1937 | — | — | 44 | #955 |
| 1936 | — | — | 62 | #779 |
| 1935 | — | — | 72 | #724 |
| 1934 | — | — | 56 | #841 |
| 1933 | — | — | 62 | #780 |
| 1932 | — | — | 86 | #662 |
| 1931 | — | — | 61 | #807 |
| 1930 | — | — | 86 | #677 |
| 1929 | — | — | 102 | #601 |
| 1928 | — | — | 92 | #656 |
| 1927 | — | — | 88 | #694 |
| 1926 | — | — | 96 | #645 |
| 1925 | — | — | 116 | #583 |
| 1924 | — | — | 90 | #690 |
| 1923 | — | — | 94 | #662 |
| 1922 | — | — | 83 | #721 |
| 1921 | — | — | 103 | #628 |
| 1920 | — | — | 89 | #679 |
| 1919 | — | — | 72 | #764 |
| 1918 | — | — | 79 | #722 |
| 1917 | — | — | 98 | #602 |
| 1916 | — | — | 86 | #629 |
| 1915 | — | — | 99 | #571 |
| 1914 | — | — | 67 | #620 |
| 1913 | — | — | 38 | #774 |
| 1912 | — | — | 46 | #607 |
| 1911 | — | — | 19 | #753 |
| 1910 | — | — | 8 | #1,293 |
| 1909 | — | — | 11 | #947 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,559 |
| 1907 | — | — | 5 | #1,513 |
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).