Santiago

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Place-name or Latin

"Saint James"

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

# 45 in the US

Santiago Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 398 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Santiago

• 45 US 2023
• 398 Nameberry 2025
• 22 Future 2035
• 303 England 2023
• 413 Germany 2016
• 50 Italy 2023
• 46 Spain 2023
• 7 Portugal 2022
• 1 Mexico 2021
• 79 Switzerland 2023
• 14 Argentina 2021
• 5 Chile 2023

20 Names Similar to Santiago

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Santiago.

• Diego
• Ariel
• Kasper
• Joaquin
• Chidi
• Marco
• Phillipe
• Aulay
• Adrien
• Loreto
• Romeo
• Noel
• Cain
• Agustín
• Zion
• Valentino
• Ricco
• Maximus
• Théo
• Raimond

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