How popular is “Santana” in the USA?

Number of people named “Santana” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Santana” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Santana” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Santana” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Santana” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Santana” by birth year

This chart shows how “Santana” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1910	5	0.000008464	5		100%
1915	6	0.000003274		6	-100%
1918	5	0.000002303		5	-100%
1919	6	0.000002843		6	-100%
1920	8	0.000003536		8	-100%
1922	9	0.000003932		9	-100%
1923	5	0.000002172		5	-100%
1924	9	0.000003779		9	-100%
1925	6	0.000002571		6	-100%
1926	6	0.000002613		6	-100%
1927	9	0.00000388		9	-100%
1928	6	0.000002654		6	-100%
1929	8	0.000003649		8	-100%
1930	8	0.000003598		8	-100%
1932	5	0.000002368		5	-100%
1934	7	0.000003371		7	-100%
1935	5	0.000002392		5	-100%
1936	8	0.000003851		8	-100%
1938	7	0.000003164		7	-100%
1944	9	0.000003346		9	-100%
1945	7	0.000002639		7	-100%
1946	6	0.000001878		6	-100%
1947	10	0.000002776	5	5	0%
1948	7	0.000002028		7	-100%
1950	6	0.000001713		6	-100%
1953	5	0.000001297		5	-100%
1954	5	0.000001256		5	-100%
1955	8	0.000001992		8	-100%
1956	8	0.00000194		8	-100%
1957	5	0.00000119		5	-100%
1959	9	0.000002165		9	-100%
1960	5	0.000001204		5	-100%
1961	5	0.000001207		5	-100%
1962	12	0.000002974		12	-100%
1963	6	0.000001516		6	-100%
1964	7	0.000001801		7	-100%
1965	5	0.000001379		5	-100%
1966	6	0.000001726		6	-100%
1967	7	0.000002062		7	-100%
1968	5	0.00000148		5	-100%
1969	5	0.000001439		5	-100%
1970	11	0.00000305		11	-100%
1971	47	0.000013693	12	35	-49%
1972	56	0.000017817	13	43	-54%
1973	48	0.00001591	12	36	-50%
1974	44	0.000014474	11	33	-50%
1975	39	0.000012916	9	30	-54%
1976	54	0.000017797	17	37	-37%
1977	38	0.000011963	11	27	-42%
1978	45	0.000014178	22	23	-2%
1979	38	0.000011422	9	29	-53%
1980	46	0.000013355	17	29	-26%
1981	38	0.000010985	17	21	-11%
1982	41	0.000011688	14	27	-32%
1983	28	0.000008085	6	22	-57%
1984	253	0.000072519	214	39	69%
1985	415	0.000116275	385	30	86%
1986	422	0.000118637	383	39	82%
1987	250	0.000069336	227	23	82%
1988	201	0.000054397	166	35	65%
1989	197	0.000051243	172	25	75%
1990	202	0.000051107	168	34	66%
1991	205	0.000052628	175	30	71%
1992	272	0.00007081	235	37	73%
1993	217	0.000057555	160	57	47%
1994	248	0.000066709	166	82	34%
1995	203	0.000055432	132	71	30%
1996	203	0.000055659	135	68	33%
1997	226	0.000062332	139	87	23%
1998	219	0.00005954	137	82	25%
1999	234	0.000063348	130	104	11%
2000	320	0.000084658	196	124	22%
2001	194	0.000051825	90	104	-7%
2002	207	0.000055373	108	99	4%
2003	213	0.000056018	81	132	-24%
2004	199	0.000052082	85	114	-15%
2005	220	0.000057219	85	135	-23%
2006	316	0.000079875	92	224	-42%
2007	258	0.000064537	70	188	-46%
2008	235	0.000059786	61	174	-48%
2009	240	0.000062824	55	185	-54%
2010	197	0.000053305	48	149	-51%
2011	232	0.000063426	80	152	-31%
2012	235	0.000064254	72	163	-39%
2013	294	0.000080644	89	205	-39%
2014	350	0.000094432	106	244	-39%
2015	375	0.000101326	119	256	-37%
2016	374	0.000101944	112	262	-40%
2017	339	0.000094793	102	237	-40%
2018	442	0.000125715	117	325	-47%
2019	530	0.000152697	127	403	-52%
2020	653	0.000195475	131	522	-60%
2021	653	0.000192742	165	488	-49%
2022	490	0.000144836	105	385	-57%
2023	545	0.000164593	142	403	-48%
2024	416	0.000124981	107	309	-49%

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