Santi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: do nome cristão Sanctus; patronímico de Sanctus
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
- Spain (INE): listed as male
- Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes
- Albania (INSTAT Albania): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 33 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/sˈanti/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Santi is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common given name.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- LVLatvia1 in 329as Santa
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 450as Santa
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Santi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #611 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 573 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900,000 named Shanti, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Shanti in IN India, ID Indonesia, Santa in MX Mexico, LV Latvia, Sandy in US United States and Shanta in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)do nome cristão Sanctus; patronímico de Sanctus
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Santi, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Santi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #65 | ≈1,900,000 est. | ≈1 in 761 | 189K | Shanti | 170 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Shanti | 120 |
| BD Bangladesh | #308 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Shanta | 54 |
| US United States | — | 75,709as Sandy | 1 in 4.4K | 69K | Sandy | 573 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 200 | Santa | 109 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 448 | 16K | — | 29 |
| LV Latvia | — | 5,721as Santa | 1 in 329 | 5.7K | Santa | 73 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 2,171as Sandi | 1 in 969 | 2.2K | Sandi | 27 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); JCE — Nombres más registrados (annual); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SURS — resident population given names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Santi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom., spanische Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Italian, masculine plural of santo (“holy”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, gauche or socially inappropriate behavior, especially at a meal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, past participle of santir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Haitian Creole, to feel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Santi Guccib. 1530FRItalian artist (1530-1600)
- Santi di Titob. 1536FRItalian painter (1536-1603)
- Santi Romanob. 1875ITItalian jurist (1875-1947)
- Santi Ghoseb. 1916INAnti-British Bengali revolutionary
- Santi Promphatb. 1952THThai politician
- Santi Santamariab. 1957ESSpanish chef (1957–2011)
- Santi Millánb. 1968ESSpanish actor
- Santigoldb. 1976USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
- Santi Kolkb. 1981NLDutch footballer
- Santi Cazorlab. 1984ESSpanish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)76 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 852 | #11,002 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 332 | #11,002 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 191 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2014 | 2 | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Santi?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /sˈanti/; in Spanish /ˈsanti/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Santi a male or female name?
- Santi is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes; Spain (INE): listed as male; Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes; Albania (INSTAT Albania): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Santi mean?
- Recorded meaning: do nome cristão Sanctus; patronímico de Sanctus
- In which country does Santi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 million people named Shanti in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Santi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 75,709 people named Sandy in 2020, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Santi compared with other names?
- In India, Santi is the 65th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Santi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/santiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Santi” — the 65th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.