Santo
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: holy, godly
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/santo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Santo is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- DODominican Republic
- PTPortugal
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 338 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
holy, sacred
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Santo is read(measured from records)
Santo is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish21%
holy, godly
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese8.7%
holy, sacred
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Santo 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4.6K | Santo | 338 |
| BR Brazil | — | 9.6K | Santo | 6 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | — | Santo | 1 |
| PT Portugal | — | listed | Santo | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Santo | 104 |
| ES Spain | — | 659 | Santo | 38 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 4.9K | — | 10 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1.4K | — | 1 |
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 — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Santo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma italiana de Sanctus; patronímico, filho de Santo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Dal lat. sanctus, «santo»; nome di devozione, qui indicato come poco usato.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In German, aus dem Italienischen entlehnter männl. Vom., der auf einen römischen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Italian, Variante di Santi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Kitao Masanobub. 1761JPnot in their usual nameJapanese poet and artist (1761–1816)
- Sante Geronimo Caseriob. 1873ITnot in their usual namesentenced to death in France
- Santo Trafficante, Sr.b. 1886ITSicilian-born American mobster
- Santo Trafficanteb. 1914USAmerican crime boss
- Ron Santob. 1940USAmerican baseball player (1940–2010)
- Akiko Santōb. 1942JPJapanese actress, TV personality and politician
- Santo Biasattib. 1943ARArgentine journalist
- Santo Loquastob. 1944USAmerican producetion designer
- Santo Versaceb. 1945ITItalian fashion businessman
- Santo Condorellib. 1995CACanadian then Italian swimmer
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 87 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.6K | #7,224 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4K | #7,593 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4K | #7,915 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.4K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 659 | #6,384 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 659 | #6,384 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 9 | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Santo come from?
- holy, sacred Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Santo?
- A machine transcription gives /santo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Santo mean?
- In Spanish, holy, godly
- In which country does Santo have the most bearers?
- Santo is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled santo.
What do you want to know about Santo?
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/santoThe 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, “Santo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.