Santino

What Santino means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Santino yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #353 vs #728 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Santino?

US: Rising: up from #606 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #833 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 934 boys got the name (#353 that year). First in the US records in 1913.

How common

• About 1 in 1,829 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 5,665 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in RI (3.2 per 1,000 boys), DE (2.38 per 1,000 boys), NJ (1.91 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Santino is #353 in the US and #728 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Santino were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Santana285 US · 5 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Santino

Boys

• Enzo#72“home + ruler”^*
• Rowan#59“little red one”^*
• Santiago#26Spanish form of James, meaning “May He Heel”^*
• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Elias#13Form of Elijah, meaning “Yahweh is my god”^*
• Luka#85Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #85 vs #261 in 2025

For a sister

• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Leilani#60Hawaiian, meaning “a lei; a child + heavenly, royal”^*
• Lucia#83Variant of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Kailani#253“sea + sky”^*
• Lia#200Latin, meaning “cow”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Santino’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.