Santo

Where Santo comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Santo.

  • Vowel-ended
Santo through the years
  1. 1907
    First appearance
    #1,345 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1915
    Peak, #570
    99 babies named Santo, its best rank.
  3. 1937
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #942.
  4. 1961
    Santo Rocco Gangemi born
    Italian nuncio
  5. 1995
    Santo Condorelli born
    Canadian then Italian swimmer
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Santo Condorelli · Canadian then Italian swimmer, born 1995
  • Santo Rocco Gangemi · Italian nuncio, born 1961
  • Santo Trafficante · American crime boss, 1914–1987
  • Santo Anzà · road bicycle racer, born 1980
  • Santo Versace · Italian fashion businessman, born 1945

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.