Santanna
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- san-TAN-a
- Origin
- Spanish
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Santanna is a girls' name of Spanish origin, meaning “Saint Anne”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Santanna mean?
Spanish: spelling of Santana; surname from Santa Ana, Saint Anne
“Saint Anne”
A Spanish and Portuguese surname from Santa Ana, Saint Anne, made famous by the guitarist Carlos Santana.
Meaning borrowed from Santana.
Is Santanna a girl's or a boy's name?
Santanna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Santanna in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Santanna, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2015, with 5 girls.
2025 had more girls named Santanna than any year since 2016.
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were given Santanna or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,977, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
- Santana 8
- Santanna 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Santanna in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
How popular is Santanna in the US?
No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2019, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 1986.
Half of all the boys named Santanna in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Santanna in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,582 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,132 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,180 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,859 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,319 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,655 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,464 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,660 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,697 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,715 |
Names like Santanna
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Sophia, Syeda, Sierra, Sienna, Ariana, Solana, Aisha, Amara, Paloma, Alora, Selena, Lucia
Other spellings of Santanna
Names related to Santanna
More Spanish names
Santiago, Lola, Xavier, Amaya, Alaia, Diego, Rio, Cruz, Elian, Jesus, Ximena, Javier, Esmeralda, Amayah, Reina, Cesar
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Santanna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/santanna, updated 20 October 2026.