Santana

boys’ name · 56%girls’ name · 44%Steady · modern nameCompare

Santana is ranked 811th among boys in 2024 (309 births). Its best rank was 544th, in 2020.

Rank in 2024: #811down 135 from 2023
Births in 2024: 3090.02% of boys
Peak year: 2020522 births
Best rank: #544in 2020
Since 1915: 13,343people given the name

Babies named Santana, by year of birthboysgirls

The story in the numbers

7,494 boys have been named Santana in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 522 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 887 → 811).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 32%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Santana is used for both sexes: 44% of its bearers are girls (5,849), most of them born around 1985.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Santana
1910s	17
1920s	66
1930s	40
1940s	34
1950s	46
1960s	63
1970s	304
1980s	290
1990s	652
2000s	1,479
2010s	2,396
2020s	2,107

In 2020, its biggest year

Santana was the 544th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2020 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and William. See all of 2020.

Names that rose and fell with Santana

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.