Santiago

Where Santiago comes from

Santiago hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1852
    Santiago Ramón y Cajal born
    Spanish scientist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #526 among boys — 12 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1951
    Santiago Calatrava born
    Spanish-Swiss engineer, architect, and artist
  4. 2025
    Peak, #26
    7,554 babies named Santiago — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Santiago Ramón y Cajal · Spanish scientist, 1852–1934
  • Santiago Calatrava · Spanish-Swiss engineer, architect, and artist, born 1951
  • Santiago Bernabéu Yeste · Spanish footballer, 1895–1978
  • Santiago Cañizares · Spanish footballer, born 1969
  • Santiago Salcedo · Paraguayan association football player, born 1981

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.