Santiago
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Place-name or Latin
"Saint James"
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Santiago Origin and Meaning
The name Santiago is a boy's name of Spanish, Latin origin meaning "Saint James".
Santiago is a spirited Spanish name with great crossover potential. It's a place-name (a city in Chile), a surname, and the name of the patron saint of Spain.
Santiago has been rising through the popularity charts in the US for more than 30 years now, and shows no signs of slowing down. It might make a creative honor name for an ancestral James.
Santiago has been featured in several works of fiction: it was the main character's name in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Paolo Coehlo's The Alchemist, and there was also a Santiago in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire.
- Santiago Rank in US Top 1000
- Santiago Rank in Nameberry Top 1000
- Names Similar to Santiago
- Famous People Named Santiago
- The name Santiago in Pop Culture
- International Variations of the name Santiago
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# 45 in the US
Santiago Rank in US Top 1000
# 398 on Nameberry
Santiago Rank in Nameberry Top 1000
Popularity of the name Santiago
- 45US2023
- 398Nameberry2025
- 22Future2035
- 303England2023
- 413Germany2016
- 50Italy2023
- 46Spain2023
- 7Portugal2022
- 1Mexico2021
- 79Switzerland2023
- 14Argentina2021
- 5Chile2023
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Famous People Named Santiago
- Santiago CabreraEnglish,Chilean actor
- Santiago CalatravaSpanish architect
- Santiago BernabéuSpanish footballer and president of Real Madrid
- Santiago Hernán SolariArgentine footballer
- Santiago Ramón y CajalSpanish pathologist; winner of the Nobel Prize
- Santiago CortésEl Salvadorean footballer
- Santiago CazorlaSpanish footballer
- Santiago IglesiasPuerto Rican Senator
- Ruben SantiagoHudson, American actor
- Santiago Enrique Baston (b. 2018)son of Eva Longoria and Jose “Pepe” Baston
The name Santiago in Pop Culture
- Santiagoaging fisherman in Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea"
- Santiago Fisterracharacter in telenovela "La Reina del Sur"
- Santiagomain character in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Santiagocharacter in Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire"
- Santiagoprotagonist and troubled Jesus figure in the novella "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel García Márquez
- Santiagoa character in "Santiago: a Myth of the Far Future" by Mike Resnick
- Santiagoa character on TV's "Friday Night Lights"
- Santiago Riveracharacter in The Cluefinders game series
- Hale Santiagocharacter in the Canadian television series "Lost Girl"
- Amy Santiagocharacter on TV's "Brooklyn Nine,Nine"
- Santiago "Jaime" MendozaCharacter in "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe", by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
International Variations of the name Santiago
- YagueSpanish
- TagoSpanish
- SaniagoSpanish
- YagoSpanish
- SandiagoSpanish
- ChanoSpanish
- SantiSpanish
- DiagoSpanish
- ChagoSpanish
- AntiagoSpanish
- SandiegoSpanish
- VegoSpanish
- TiagoPortuguese
- XantiBasque
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