Santha
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Santha is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 42nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pers. name, Bengali.
- SVEl Salvador1 in 17◐
- HNHonduras1 in 17
- BOBolivia1 in 20
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈119K ●
- #389 ●
- 7 ●
- Sources
- 519 ●
- 1 in 329 ◐
across 8 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
3.9M records
Official registry-verified
Latvia
Spellings & scripts●
5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Santa in SV El Salvador, PE Peru, ES Spain and 9 more, Sandy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 8 more, Shanti in IN India, MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia and סנדי in FR France, IL Israel.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
pers. name, Bengali
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #42 | 4,763,719 | 1.9M rec. | — | 189K | Shanti | 158 |
| SV El Salvador | — | 1,155,078 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | Santa | 12 |
| PE Peru | — | 629,280 | 150K rec. | — | — | Santa | 58 |
| PY Paraguay | — | 337,518 | 7.4K rec. | — | — | Santa | 18 |
| BO Bolivia | — | 325,966 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Santa | 24 |
| MX Mexico | — | 318,490 | 90K rec. | — | 200 | Santa | 107 |
| AR Argentina | — | 198,015 | 124K rec. | — | 18K | Santa | 72 |
| GT Guatemala | — | 187,944 | 3.4K rec. | — | — | Santa | 21 |
| HN Honduras | — | 168,052 | 3.3K rec. | — | — | Santa | 12 |
| CO Colombia | — | 111,134 | 6K rec. | — | — | Santa | 95 |
| US United States | #379 | 69,154 | 1.2M rec. | 1 in 4.8K | 69K | Sandy | 519 |
| GB United Kingdom | #461 | 52,851 | 55K rec. | — | 4 | Sandy | 194 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi87K51%
- English24K14%
- Telugu19K11%
- Assamese19K11%
- Indonesian4.8K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 87,499 | 51% |
| English | 24,292 | 14% |
| Telugu | 18,678 | 11% |
| Assamese | 18,677 | 11% |
| Indonesian | 4,790 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Chandrama Santhab. 1938INIndian politician (1938–2021)
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 22 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 31 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Santha?
- We estimate roughly 119 thousand people bear Santha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Santha have the most bearers?
- Santha is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled shanti.
- How common is Santha compared with other names?
- In India, Santha is the 42nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Santha a male or female name?
- Santha is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Santha mean?
- Recorded meaning: pers. name, Bengali
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Santha” — the 42nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.