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Santiago

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Place-name or Latin
"Saint James"
Grace Royal
By Grace Royal
Updated Wed Apr 23 2025

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.

# 45 in the US

Santiago Rank in US Top 1000

# 435 on Nameberry

Santiago Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Popularity of the name Santiago

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Famous People Named Santiago

  • 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

The name 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

International Variations of the name Santiago

  • Yague
    Spanish
  • Tago
    Spanish
  • Saniago
    Spanish
  • Yago
    Spanish
  • Sandiago
    Spanish
  • Chano
    Spanish
  • Santi
    Spanish
  • Diago
    Spanish
  • Chago
    Spanish
  • Antiago
    Spanish
  • Sandiego
    Spanish
  • Vego
    Spanish
  • Tiago
    Portuguese
  • Xanti
    Basque

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