Santago
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɑntɑɡoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Santago is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
- BRBrazil1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Santago itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
233 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled สันตะโก in TH Thailand.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Santago 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 | 233 | 1 in 1.4M | 233 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 121 | 1 in 1.7M | 121 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | #690,707 | สันตะโก | 12 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | — | — | 1 | — | — |
233 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 233 | #81,181 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 213 | #92,574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 199 | #86,992 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 121 | #54,790 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Santago?
- A machine transcription gives /sɑntɑɡoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Santago have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 233 people named Santago, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Santago most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Santago is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Santago?
- In the United States, the national register counted 233 people named Santago in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Santago?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/santagoThe 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, “Santago”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.