Santoro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: one who was born on All Saints’ Day, It
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Santoro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 38K
- UYUruguay1 in 4.5K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 368 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
one who was born on All Saints’ Day, It. santoro (LL sanctorum (omnium dies festus)). Vars.: Santori(o) (Naples); Santorum (Trentino). Dims.: Santorelli, Santoriello, Santorini. Kazan. Vars.: Eng.: Songer; Sangster (Scots; in form, early ME -ster is a fern, agent suffix, contrasted with the masc. -er, but by the period of surname formation, the distinction was pretty well lost). Jewish:
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Santoro 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 2 | Santoro | 97 |
| CN China | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Santoro | 4 |
| US United States | — | 8,713 | 1 in 38K | 8.7K | Santoro | 368 |
| BR Brazil | — | 6,694 | 1 in 32K | 6.7K | — | 6 |
| AR Argentina | — | 5,144 | 1 in 8.8K | 5.1K | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 859 | 1 in 9.8K | 859 | Santoro | 25 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 745 | 1 in 4.5K | 745 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | #810 | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Santoro | 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Santoro is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, someone who was born on All Saints’ Day, It. santoro (LL sanctorum (omnium dies festus)). Vars.: Santori(o) (Naples); Santorum (Trentino). Dims.: Santorelli, Santoriello, Santorini.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Italian, do latim Sanctorum, ligado à festa de Todos os Santos
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes 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)
- Cláudio Santorob. 1919BRBrazilian composer (1919–1989)
- Eugenio Santorob. 1920CHItalian artist (1920-2006)
- Miguel Ángel Santorob. 1942ARArgentine footballer
- Osvaldo Santorob. 1948ARArgentinian actor
- Michele Santorob. 1951ITItalian journalist, television host and politician (born 1951)
- Fabrice Santorob. 1972FRFrench tennis player
- Rodrigo Santorob. 1975BRBrazilian actor
- Matthew Santorob. 1985CACanadian YouTuber
- Matteo Santorob. 2006ITItalian diver
- Federica SantoroITactress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.7K | #4,076 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.6K | #3,789 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.2K | #4,203 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6.7K | #1,795 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 5.1K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 859 | #1,396 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 745 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Santoro come from?
- one who was born on All Saints’ Day, It. santoro (LL sanctorum (omnium dies festus)). Vars.: Santori(o) (Naples); Santorum (Trentino). Dims.: Santorelli, Santoriello, Santorini. Kazan. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Santoro mean?
- Recorded meaning: one who was born on All Saints’ Day, It.
- In which country does Santoro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Santoro in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled santoro.
- How common is the name Santoro?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,713 people named Santoro in 2010, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Santoro compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Santoro is the 810th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/santoroThe 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, “Santoro” — the 810th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.