Santa
Santa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 24 births. Its best rank was 723rd, in 1915.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 240.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192389 births
- Best rank
- #723in 1915
- Since 1896
- 4,357people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,357 girls have been named Santa in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 89 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 22 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Santa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 12 | |
| 1900s | 88 | |
| 1910s | 556 | |
| 1920s | 735 | |
| 1930s | 453 | |
| 1940s | 381 | |
| 1950s | 477 | |
| 1960s | 453 | |
| 1970s | 439 | |
| 1980s | 276 | |
| 1990s | 216 | |
| 2000s | 113 | |
| 2010s | 97 | |
| 2020s | 61 |
In 1923, its biggest year
Santa was the 778th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1923 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Betty. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Santa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Virginapeak 1922
- Rosariapeak 1923
- Marcellepeak 1920
- Marcellapeak 1922
- Oneidapeak 1919
- Vitapeak 1921
- Lavenapeak 1922
- Carmelpeak 1962
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.