Santos

Where Santos comes from

Santos hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 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 — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1916
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.