Santamaría
surname · Latin script
Meaning: roller shutter (to protect shops)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sant̪amaɾia/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Santamaría is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Panama it is the 18th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 911(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 960
- PAPanama≈1 in 1.3K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 322 (measured from records)
- 1 in 911 (inferred from the name graph)
27,714 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Santamaria in PE Peru, US United States, ES Spain and 4 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)
roller shutter (to protect shops)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Santamaría 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #167 | 27,714 | 1 in 1.8K | 28K | Santamaria | 180 |
| CO Colombia | #294 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 13 | Santamaria | 139 |
| PE Peru | #331 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Santamaria | 69 |
| US United States | — | 12,375 | 1 in 27K | 12K | Santamaria | 322 |
| SV El Salvador | #153 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 960 | — | Santamaria | 49 |
| CR Costa Rica | #157 | 5,595 | 1 in 911 | 5.6K | Santamaria | 65 |
| PA Panama | #18 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 41 | Santamaria | 70 |
27,714 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)
Santamaría 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.
Catholic inspiration
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)
- Mongo Santamaríab. 1917CUCuban musician (1917–2003)
- José Santamaríab. 1929UYUruguayan and Spanish footballer (1929-2026)
- Massielb. 1947ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer
- Patxi Santamariab. 1959ESSpanish actor and theater director
- Nadia Calviñob. 1968ESnot in their usual nameSpanish economist and politician
- Eva Santamaríab. 1971ESSpanish singer
- Iñigo Larrainzarb. 1971ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Ainhoa Santamaría Ballesterosb. 1980ESSpanish actress
- Roberto Santamaría Cipriánb. 1985ESSpanish footballer
- Anderson Santamaríab. 1992PEPeruvian 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 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 41 | #92 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 2 | #114 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Santamaría mean, and where does it come from?
- roller shutter (to protect shops) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Santamaría?
- A machine transcription gives /sant̪amaɾia/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Santamaría have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Santamaría, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled santamaria.
- Where is Santamaría most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Santamaría is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 911 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Santamaría?
- In Spain, the national register counted 27,714 people named Santamaría, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Santamaría compared with other names?
- In Spain, Santamaría is the 167th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/santamar%C3%ADaThe 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, “Santamaría” — the 167th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.