Santiago
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
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.
Santiago is also given to girls, where it ranks #14642 in the US.
Pronounced san-tee-AH-go.
As of October 2026, Santiago ranked #26 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #407.
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 CabreraBoy
English,Chilean actor
- Santiago CalatravaBoy
Spanish architect
- Santiago BernabéuBoy
Spanish footballer and president of Real Madrid
- Santiago Hernán SolariBoy
Argentine footballer
- Santiago Ramón y CajalBoy
Spanish pathologist; winner of the Nobel Prize
- Santiago CortésBoy
El Salvadorean footballer
- Santiago CazorlaBoy
Spanish footballer
- Santiago IglesiasBoy
Puerto Rican Senator
- Ruben SantiagoBoy
Hudson, American actor
- Santiago Enrique Baston (b. 2018)Boy
son of Eva Longoria and Jose “Pepe” Baston
Santiago in pop culture
- SantiagoBoy
aging fisherman in Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea"
- Santiago FisterraBoy
character in telenovela "La Reina del Sur"
- SantiagoBoy
main character in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- SantiagoBoy
character in Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire"
- SantiagoBoy
protagonist and troubled Jesus figure in the novella "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel García Márquez
- SantiagoBoy
a character in "Santiago: a Myth of the Far Future" by Mike Resnick
- SantiagoBoy
a character on TV's "Friday Night Lights"
- Santiago RiveraBoy
character in The Cluefinders game series
- Hale SantiagoBoy
character in the Canadian television series "Lost Girl"
- Amy SantiagoBoy
character on TV's "Brooklyn Nine,Nine"
- Santiago "Jaime" MendozaBoy
Character in "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe", by Benjamin Alire Sáenz