Sàntos
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sàntos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In France it is the 6th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From santos (“saints”) (plural of santo).
- ESSpain1 in 586(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7K
- USUnited States1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 362 (measured from records)
- 1 in 586 (inferred from the name graph)
137,232 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Santos in FR France, US United States, ES Spain and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From santos (“saints”) (plural of santo).
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sàntos counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 137,232 | 1 in 2.4K | 144K | Santos | 229 |
| ES Spain | — | 85,287 | 1 in 586 | 85K | Santos | 71 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 26,532 | 1 in 637 | 27K | — | 12 |
| AR Argentina | — | 25,231 | 1 in 1.8K | 25K | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | #272 | 5,029 | 1 in 1.7K | 5K | Santos | 46 |
| FR France | #6 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 15M | 985 | Santos | 362 |
137,232 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sàntos mean, and where does it come from?
- From santos (“saints”) (plural of santo). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Sàntos have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 137 thousand people named Sàntos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled santos.
- Where is Sàntos most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sàntos is densest in Spain — about 1 in 586 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sàntos?
- In the United States, the national register counted 137,232 people named Sàntos in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Sàntos compared with other names?
- In France, Sàntos is the 6th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A0ntosThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sàntos” — the 6th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.