Santis

surname · Latin script

Meaning: forma latinizada de Santi

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/santis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Santis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 2.5K(measured from records)
  • CLChile≈1 in 5.5K
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 52K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

83,466 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
126 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SantisLatin(measured from records)
ΣαντηςGreek(measured from records)

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)

forma latinizada de Santi

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where in the world(measured from records)

Santis 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.

Where Santis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—83,4661 in 2.5K83KSantis108
IT Italy—≈21,000 est.≈1 in 3K—Santis56
CL Chile#452≈3,300 est.≈1 in 5.5K6Santis71
GT Guatemala—≈660 est.≈1 in 26K—Santis23
VE Venezuela—≈550 est.≈1 in 52K—Santis27
UY Uruguay—≈110 est.≈1 in 31K—Santis16

83,466 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Santis is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Italy, Canada

    Also written Santís

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, India, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Santiš

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Santis is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

190019502000Orlando Santis, b. 1901Erich Müller-Santis, b. 1927Guillermo Ravest, b. 1927Georgios Santis, b. 1929Omar Saavedra Santis, b. 1944Fernando Santis, b. 1958Natalia Alicia Galvez Santis, b. 1984Claudio Santis, b. 1992Óscar Santis, b. 1999

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)

FormalEstimado/a Santis,Dear Santis, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Santis,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Santis
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—83K#317

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Santis mean, and where does it come from?
forma latinizada de Santi Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
How do you pronounce Santis?
A machine transcription gives /santis/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Santis have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 83 thousand people named Santis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled santis.
Where is Santis most common?
Santis is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.5 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Santis?
In Brazil, the national register counted 83,466 people named Santis, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
How common is Santis compared with other names?
In Chile, Santis is the 452nd most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Santis” — the 452nd most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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