girls:
2.8k births since 1885
#3297 (42nd percentile)
boys:
18.2k births since 1880
#850 (81st percentile)
overall:
20.9k births since 1880
#1766 (77th percentile)
The name Santos is the #1,766 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,931 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 77.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #850 (81.5% percentile) for all time with 18,173 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,297 (42.3% percentile) for all time with 2,758 births since 1885.
Santos has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1885 for girls). Birth data for Santos is available in 134 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (128 years for boys and 114 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 Santos has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Santos were boys.
For boys, Santos reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 32.7% percentile (ranked #589) with 138 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 171 births per million (ranked 32.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Santos is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #615 (32.5% percentile) with 171 births per million.
For girls, Santos reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 15.4% percentile (ranked #516) with 77 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 77 births per million (ranked 15.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Santos".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Santos. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.5% confident that Santos is pronounced as SAN-tohs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SAHN-tohs, at 26.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like S AE1 N T OW0 S) 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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