Santos
Santos is the 190th most common surname in the United States, shared by 144,026 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,075.
By the numbers
- People
- 144,026
- Rank
- 190th
- How common
- 1 in 2,075
- Per 100,000
- 48.2
Where the name comes from
Origin Romance languages
From roa Santos (Spanish Santos, Portuguese Santos).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Santos described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Santos
- Juan Manuel Santos (born 1951)president of Colombia from 2010 to 2018
- Alessandro Santos (born 1977)Brazilian-Japanese association football player
- Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873–1932)Brazilian aviation pioneer
- Djalma Santos (1929–2013)Brazilian association football player
- Nílton Santos (1925–2013)Brazilian association football player
- Fernando Santos (born 1954)Portuguese football manager
- Fábio Santos (born 1985)Brazilian association football player
- Moacir Rodrigues Santos (1970–2024)Brazilian association football player
People named Santos with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Santos
Also a first name
Santos has been given to 21,573 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2025. 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.