Santala
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sænˈtɑɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Santala is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- INIndia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Santala counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 62 | Santala | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 3.6K | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | 117 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 55 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 45 | — | — |
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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Santala is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, melnīgsnējas govs vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Risto Santalab. 1929FIFinnish dean, honorary doctor of theology and author
- Eero Santalab. 1930FIFinnish journalist and politician (1930-1997)
- Heikki Santalab. 1934FIFinnish politician
- Tommi Santalab. 1979FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Jukka Santalab. 1985FIFinnish footballer
- Jimi Santalab. 1988FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Eero SantalaFIFinnish chemist
- Ville SantalaFIresearcher
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 3.6K | #533 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 117 | #133,114 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 62 | #39,082 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 55 | #11,732 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 45 | #112,812 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 41 | #40,644 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Santala?
- A machine transcription gives /sænˈtɑɫə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Santala a male or female name?
- Santala is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Santala have the most bearers?
- Santala is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled santala.
What do you want to know about Santala?
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/santalaThe 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, “Santala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.