Recorded 1910–2025 · United States
Santana was most popular in 2021, when 654 American babies were given the name — ranking #944 that year. In 2025 it ranked #1,435, with 377 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 13,726 people named Santana.
Santana first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1910, which makes it about 115 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 97 of the 116 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 13,726 American births named Santana between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 13,343 are estimated to be alive today.
377 American babies were named Santana in 2025, ranking #1,435 that year.
Santana is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 497 births a year, against 297 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +67% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Santana is a unisex name — 43.3% of the 13,726 Americans given it were girls and 56.7% were boys. It changed hands: since 2003 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 25% girls and 75% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 13,343 Americans named Santana are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 17 years old, and half are between 7 and 32.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org