Santaella
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/santaɛʎa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Santaella is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Santaella. This surname is predominantly found in Venezuela.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 19K
- ARArgentina1 in 119K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Santaella. This surname is predominantly found in Venezuela.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Santaella 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #503 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Santaella | 42 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,671 | 1 in 19K | 2.7K | Santaella | 106 |
| CU Cuba | #670 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Santaella | 5 |
| US United States | — | 584 | 1 in 570K | 658 | Santaella | 133 |
| AR Argentina | — | 381 | 1 in 119K | 381 | Santaella | 43 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #482 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Santaella | 18 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Santaella | 24 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- Manuel López Santaellab. 1804ES(1804-1867)
- Carmen Schraderb. 1913DEnot in their usual nameGerman-Spanish housewife, Righteous Among the Nations
- Alicia Santaellab. 1918CLChilean writer
- Lucia Santaellab. 1944BRresearcher and professor from Brazil
- Federico Santaella Pascualb. 1955ESSpanish archaeologist and historian
- Katty Santaellab. 1967VEVenezuelan judoka
- Juan Antonio Santaella Randob. 1974ESassociation football player
- María Margarita Vargas Santaellab. 1983VEduchess of Anjou
- Silvana Santaellab. 1983VEVenezuelan model
- Leandro Rodríguez Santaellab. 2005VEVenezuelan association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.7K | #1,908 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.7K | #1,908 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 658 | #36,570 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 584 | #37,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 402 | #49,159 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 381 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Santaella mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Santaella. This surname is predominantly found in Venezuela. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Santaella?
- A machine transcription gives /santaɛʎa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Santaella have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.5 thousand people named Santaella in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled santaella.
- How common is the name Santaella?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,671 people named Santaella, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Santaella compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Santaella is the 503rd most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/santaellaThe 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, “Santaella” — the 503rd most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.