Sandria vs Santana
American parents have registered 13,726 Santanas since 1880, against 655 Sandrias. Santana is still ahead, with 377 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Sandria Santana
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 105 years in which either name was published, Santana for 79 years and Sandria for 26 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.
Side by side
| Sandria | Santana | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 655 | 13,726 |
| Most in one year | 26 | 654 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 377 |
| Estimated living today | 550 | 13,000 |
| Median age today | 53 | 16 |
| Peak year | 1947 | 2020 |
| Best rank | 1,897th girls | 542nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 855th |
| First recorded | 1937 | 1910 |
| Girls / boys | 655 / 0 | 5,941 / 7,785 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Sandrias alive today are over 53; half the Santanas are over 16. That is 37 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sandria and Santana.