Santiago

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Place-name or Latin

"Saint James"

Santiago Origin and Meaning

Variation of Diego

Santiago Rank in US Top 1000

# 29 in the US

Santiago Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 495 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Santiago

• 29 US 2024
• 495 Nameberry 2025
• 22 Future 2035
• 285 England 2024
• 413 Germany 2016
• 50 Italy 2023
• 46 Spain 2023
• 7 Portugal 2022
• 1 Mexico 2021
• 92 switzerland 2024
• 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
• Joaquin
• Kasper
• Marco
• Cain
• Valentino
• Ariel
• Angelo
• Andre
• Adrien
• Zion
• Noel
• Cesar
• Romeo
• Maximiliano
• Israel
• Giovanni
• Maximus
• Théo
• Keanu

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