Santén

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Santén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variante di Santi.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 169K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 304K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 934K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

207 people, 2010

Record sources
16 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 169K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Santen in US United States, NL Netherlands, NO Norway 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)

Variante di Santi

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Santén 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.

Where Santén is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2071 in 1.6M217Santen16
NL Netherlands1021 in 169K102Santen8
BR Brazil271 in 7.8M27——
NO Norway181 in 304K18Santen4
CH Switzerland91 in 934K9——
SE Sweden41 in 2.6M4Santen5

207 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Santén is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Santen

  • Dutch surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Germany, United States, Brazil

    Languages: Dutch, German, Spanish

    Also written Santen, Santeñ

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Santén under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Santén mean, and where does it come from?
Variante di Santi Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani.
In which country does Santén have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 207 people named Santén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled santen.
Where is Santén most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Santén is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 169 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Santén?
In the United States, the national register counted 207 people named Santén in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.

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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, “Santén”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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