Santo

Santo is the 7,915th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,022 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 74,300.

By the numbers

People: 4,022
Rank: 7,915th
How common: 1 in 74,300
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Romance languages

From roa Santo.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Santo described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 66.1%
Hispanic or Latino 24.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
Black, not Hispanic 1.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Santo

Nuno Espírito Santo (born 1974)Portuguese footballer and manager
Franco Di Santo (born 1989)Argentinian association football player
El Santo (1917–1984)Mexican professional wrestler and actor
Santō Kyōden (1761–1816)Japanese poet and artist
Ron Santo (1940–2010)American baseball player
Akiko Santō (born 1942)Japanese actress, TV personality and politician
Lory Del Santo (born 1958)Italian actress and model

People named Santo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Santo

Also a first name

Santo has been given to 4,876 American babies as a first name since 1907, peaking in 1925. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.