Santana

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Santana: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Santana: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #634, and it stood at #856 in 2023.

2registrars recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#634highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2738
1998	#3848
2000	#3247
2001	#3998
2004	#4598
2005	#2970
2006	#4157
2007	#5201
2008	#5545
2009	#3936
2011	#4049
2012	#2521
2013	#3160
2014	#2203
2015	#3615
2016	#3214
2017	#3229
2018	#4684
2019	#3541
2020	#1773
2021	#2499
2022	#3533
2023	#4056

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 23 of the 27 years from 1997 to 2023.

In 2023: #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4056 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1997–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2738 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2014–2023
Highest recorded position: #634 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2022 (recorded 2014–2023).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #4056 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Santana appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 140 births with the name.

Santana across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Santana's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2738 (1997)	#1773 (2020)	#4056 (2023)	23 of 27	140 (1997–2023)	16 (2020)
England and Wales · Boys	#2142 (2000)	#2142 (2000)	#4991 (2023)	10 of 24	39 (2000–2023)	7 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#876 (2014)	#634 (2022)	#856 (2023)	6 of 10	22 (2014–2023)	5 (2017)

Santana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Santana in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	8	2 of 10	4
2000s	31	8 of 10	4
2010sbusiest	64	9 of 10	7
2020s	37	4 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Santana appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #634 in Republic of Ireland in 2022.

Santana's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1773	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3541	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2728	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3229	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2203	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2521	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#634	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#651	5	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1997 and 2023, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #634, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 16 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 17 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Sanne · #143, 39y
Sansa · #1788, 13y
Santi · #1108, 11y
Santiago · #285, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alliyah · #635, 24y
Ifeoma · #635, 22y
Nikol · #635, 21y
Zunairah · #635, 21y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Dania · #634, 30y
Habiba · #634, 29y
Alliyah · #635, 24y
Aniela · #635, 26y

Santana was ranked #634 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2022. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Santana and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Santana without appearing here.

Santana moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3541 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1773 and #5493.
Ellinor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4049 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2521 and #5876.
Lene Compare
In 2011 they stood at #5545 and #5545 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2521 and #5876.
Karin Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3541 and #3541 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1773 and #4535.

Moved ahead of Santana

Frida Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3247 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #4598 and #1836.
Liv Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3247 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #4598 and #1836.
Mathias Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2142 and #2501 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #4052 and #2087.
Arne Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2728 and #3937 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #2960.

Moved the opposite way to Santana

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Santana went from #2738 to #4056 while Ada went from #1543 to #37.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Santana went from #2738 to #4056 while Alma went from #2411 to #228.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Santana went from #2738 to #4056 while Alyssa went from #506 to #241.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Santana went from #2738 to #4056 while Amalie went from #3824 to #865.

Moved the same way as Santana

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Santana went from #2738 to #4056 and Abigail from #24 to #134.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Santana went from #2738 to #4056 and Aimee from #61 to #1206.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Santana went from #2738 to #4056 and Aisling from #496 to #2504.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Santana went from #2738 to #4056 and Alex from #179 to #2504.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #634 in Republic of Ireland in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Santana

Santana at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Santana across 3 official records

Santana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Santana appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Santana at a glance

Santana across 3 official records

Santana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Santana appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Santana

Santana and the names beside it

Santana moved ahead of

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