Santiago
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About Santiago
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.
Pronounced san-tee-AH-go.
As of October 2026, Santiago ranked #26 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #363.
Editor's take: The name Santiago is a boy's name of Spanish, Latin origin meaning "Saint James".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #116 | 3,426 | 1,783.6 |
| 2015 | #127 | 3,219 | 1,679.4 |
| 2016 | #106 | 3,719 | 1,959.7 |
| 2017 | #93 | 4,203 | 2,270.7 |
| 2018 | #82 | 4,669 | 2,570.8 |
| 2019 | #70 | 5,047 | 2,812.9 |
| 2020 | #71 | 4,687 | 2,715.4 |
| 2021 | #63 | 5,073 | 2,899.7 |
| 2022 | #49 | 6,033 | 3,455.3 |
| 2023 | #45 | 6,353 | 3,714 |
| 2024 | #29 | 7,407 | 4,299.2 |
| 2025 | #26 | 7,554 | 4,422.5 |
World rankings
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Santiago on lists
Famous Santiagos
- 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
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