Santiago
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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: a place-name (it's a city in Chile), a surname, and the patron saint of Spain. It's a name on the rise in the charts.
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.
# 48 in the US
Santiago Rank in US Top 1000
# 517 on Nameberry
Santiago Rank in Nameberry Top 1000
Santiago Popularity
- 48US2022
- 517Nameberry2024
- 61Future2028
- 369England2021
- 413Germany2016
- 61Spain2022
- 7Portugal2022
- 79Switzerland2022
- 14Argentina2021
- 5Chile2021
- 1Mexico2021
20 Names Similar to Santiago
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- Mateo
- Emilio
- Antonio
- Francisco
- Emiliano
- Alejandro
- Matias
- Lorenzo
- Miguel
- Alonso
- Rafael
- Salvador
- Rodrigo
- Marco
- Joaquin
- Ignacio
- Sergio
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
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