girls:
131 births since 1925
#5585 (2nd percentile)
boys:
88.8k births since 1880
#332 (93rd percentile)
overall:
88.9k births since 1880
#736 (90th percentile)
The name Santiago is the #736 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 88,919 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #332 (92.8% percentile) for all time with 88,788 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,585 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 131 births since 1925.
Santiago has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1925 for girls). Birth data for Santiago is available in 139 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (139 years for boys and 19 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Santiago has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Santiago reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 95.3% percentile (ranked #44) with 3,456 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3,456 births per million (ranked 95.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1988, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Santiago is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #44 (95.3% percentile) with 3,456 births per million.
For girls, Santiago reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #817) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Santiago ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 56.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Santiago".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Santiago. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.0% confident that Santiago is pronounced as san-tee-AH-goh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sahn-tee-AH-goh, at 27.5% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like S AE0 N T IY0 AA1 G OW0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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