Santi

Spellings & scripts●

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●

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Santi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name116K records spelled Santi21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

  Also written Santí, Säntï, Sänti, Santï, S'Anti

• Indonesian given name91K records spelled Santi6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Spain, Malaysia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Santi, Santi', Şanti, Śānti

• a separate given name29K records spelled Santi7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Italy, Spain

  Also written Śāntī, Santì, Śānti, Śanti, Santí

• Thai given name17K records spelled Santi19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, Laos, India, United States

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written ซินตู้, ซันต์, ซันติ, ซันตี, San-Ti

• Catalan given name1.1K records spelled Santi2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain

  Also written Santí

56 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●

Santi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, männl. Vom., spanische Kurzform von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Italian, masculine plural of santo (“holy”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Hausa, gauche or socially inappropriate behavior, especially at a meal

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In fro, past participle of santir

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Haitian Creole, to feel

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 112 years between 1901–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Santi Guccib. 1530FRItalian artist (1530-1600)
• Santi di Titob. 1536FRItalian painter (1536-1603)
• Santi Romanob. 1875ITItalian jurist (1875-1947)
• Santi Ghoseb. 1916INAnti-British Bengali revolutionary
• Santi Promphatb. 1952THThai politician
• Santi Santamariab. 1957ESSpanish chef (1957–2011)
• Santi Millánb. 1968ESSpanish actor
• Santigoldb. 1976USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
• Santi Kolkb. 1981NLDutch footballer
• Santi Cazorlab. 1984ESSpanish association football player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 561 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Santi?

We estimate roughly 119 thousand people bear Santi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Santi have the most bearers?

Santi is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled shanti.

How common is Santi compared with other names?

In India, Santi is the 42nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Santi a male or female name?

Santi 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 Santi mean?

Recorded meaning: do nome cristão Sanctus; patronímico de Sanctus