Santos

Where Santos comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Santos.

Santos through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys, with 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1900
    Santos Urdinarán born
    Uruguayan footballer
  3. 1902
    Santos Iriarte born
    Uruguayan footballer
  4. 1906
    Peak, #523
    19 babies named Santos, its best rank.
  5. 1916
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Santos Iriarte · Uruguayan footballer, 1902–1968
  • Santos Urdinarán · Uruguayan footballer, 1900–1979
  • Santos Abril y Castelló · Catholic cardinal, born 1935
  • Santos González · Spanish cyclist, born 1973
  • Santos Gutiérrez · Colombian statesman and soldier, 1820–1872

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.