Sant'Ana
org · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Sant'Ana is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Contraction of santa (“saint”) + Ana (“Anne”).
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 103(inferred from the name graph)
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 364
- ECEcuador1 in 515
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- #342 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 415 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 103 (inferred from the name graph)
≈260,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Santana in BR Brazil, US United States, DO Dominican Republic and 3 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)Contraction of santa (“saint”) + Ana (“Anne”).
Cited for this meaning 7
- A dictionary of surnames
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sant'Ana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #45 | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 806 | 7.4K | Santana | 233 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #8 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 103 | — | Santana | 125 |
| US United States | #522 | 60,667 | 1 in 5.5K | 65K | Santana | 415 |
| ES Spain | #77 | 58,815 | 1 in 850 | 59K | Santana | 188 |
| EC Ecuador | #74 | 32,822 | 1 in 515 | 33K | Santana | 57 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #78 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 364 | — | Santana | 68 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); 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. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Matilde Isabel de Santana e Vasconcelos Moniz de Betencourtb. 1805PTPortuguese writer and noblewoman
- Jacinto Augusto de Santana e Vasconcelos Moniz de Bettencourtb. 1824PTPortuguese politician
- Sant'Anna Gomesb. 1834BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian musician
- Genoveva Sant'AnaBRnot in their usual nameBrazilian woman
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sant'Ana mean, and where does it come from?
- Contraction of santa (“saint”) + Ana (“Anne”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Sant'Ana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 263 thousand people named Sant'Ana in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled santana.
- How common is the name Sant'Ana?
- In the United States, the national register counted 60,667 people named Sant'Ana in 2010, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Sant'Ana compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Sant'Ana is the 45th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sant'Ana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sant'anaThe 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, “Sant'Ana” — the 45th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.