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Santiago

OriginPlace-name or Latin
Meaning"Saint James"
GenderBoy

About Santiago

Variation of Diego

Pronounced san-tee-AH-go.

As of September 2026, Santiago ranked #26 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #363.

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Famous Santiagos

  • Santiago Cabrera

    English,Chilean actor

  • Santiago Calatrava

    Spanish architect

  • Santiago Bernabéu

    Spanish footballer and president of Real Madrid

  • Santiago Hernán Solari

    Argentine footballer

  • Santiago Ramón y Cajal

    Spanish pathologist; winner of the Nobel Prize

  • Santiago Cortés

    El Salvadorean footballer

  • Santiago Cazorla

    Spanish footballer

  • Santiago Iglesias

    Puerto Rican Senator

  • Ruben Santiago

    Hudson, American actor

  • Santiago Enrique Baston (b. 2018)

    son of Eva Longoria and Jose “Pepe” Baston

Santiago in pop culture

  • Santiago

    aging fisherman in Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea"

  • Santiago Fisterra

    character in telenovela "La Reina del Sur"

  • Santiago

    main character in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

  • Santiago

    character in Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire"

  • Santiago

    protagonist and troubled Jesus figure in the novella "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel García Márquez

  • Santiago

    a character in "Santiago: a Myth of the Far Future" by Mike Resnick

  • Santiago

    a character on TV's "Friday Night Lights"

  • Santiago Rivera

    character in The Cluefinders game series

  • Hale Santiago

    character in the Canadian television series "Lost Girl"

  • Amy Santiago

    character on TV's "Brooklyn Nine,Nine"

  • Santiago "Jaime" Mendoza

    Character in "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe", by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Variations & nicknames

  • YagueSpanish
  • TagoSpanish
  • SaniagoSpanish
  • YagoSpanish
  • SandiagoSpanish
  • ChanoSpanish
  • SantiSpanish
  • DiagoSpanish
  • ChagoSpanish
  • AntiagoSpanish
  • SandiegoSpanish
  • VegoSpanish
  • TiagoPortuguese
  • XantiBasque

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