Santosh

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Santosh is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 378◐
  • LALaos1 in 700
  • AOAngola1 in 1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈67K ●

across 7 countries

#274 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
276 ●

3.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.2K ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

SantoshLatin · Hindi●7.5M records
সন্তোষBengali · Bangla●3.2K records
ซานโตสThai · Thai●63 records
ᲡანთოშGeorgian · Georgian●7 records
ସନତୋଷOdia · Odia●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Santos in PE Peru, ES Spain, LA Laos and 6 more, Santhosh in SG Singapore, AE United Arab Emirates, SA Saudi Arabia and Santush in PK Pakistan.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Santosh is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#108,598,8553.1M rec.—4KSantosh273
US United States—34,29665K rec.1 in 9.7K144KSantosh276
EC Ecuador—14,058△115 rec.1 in 1.2K27K—5
ES Spain—9,6327.9K rec.1 in 5.2K85KSantos32
GB United Kingdom—8,1024.9K rec.——Santosh96
LA Laos—7,04637 rec.——Santos13
BR Brazil—6,134△7 rec.1 in 35K9.6K—1
PH Philippines—4,8554.2K rec.——Santos46
TH Thailand—4,6782.8K rec.—#173,952Santos89
PE Peru—4,5995.4K rec.—128KSantos12
AU Australia—4,5814.9K rec.—1Santosh101
MY Malaysia—4,2642K rec.—58Santosh35

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi7.5M80%
  • 1.2M12%
  • English151K2%
  • Bangla100K1%
  • Vietnamese99K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi7,516,04480%
1,179,24512%
English150,8302%
Bangla100,1251%
Vietnamese99,3321%

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◐

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

  • a separate given name1.2M records spelled Santosh2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Pakistan

  • Arabic given name30K records spelled Santosh4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew

    Also written סנטוש

  • Spanish given name14K records spelled Santosh7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian

    Also written Santösh, Śáńtóśh, Šâńtöšh, Sāntōsh

  • Portuguese surname5.8K records spelled Santosh173 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Mexico, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic

    Also written Santos, Сантос, Säntös, Santos', Сантош

  • Korean given name643 records spelled Santosh2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, South Korea, United States, Malaysia

28 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.

Over time●

020K40K60K19001950200051K · 1984

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Santosh in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1896–2017
Yearrecords
18961
189939
19003
19014
19041
19081
19101
19111
19121
19132
19142
19152
191614
191713
191841
191950
1920227
192156
1922121
1923381
1924104
192577
192646
192756
192838
1929102
193085
1931103
1932192
1933129
1934305
1935243
1936370
1937376
1938385
1939645
1940591
1941727
19421,012
1943877
19441,545
19451,288
19461,899
19471,911
19481,891
19492,902
19502,785
19513,205
19524,402
19533,809
19545,779
19554,608
19566,457
19576,127
19586,309
19599,133
19608,029
19619,033
196210,960
19639,709
196412,303
196510,557
196614,195
196712,423
196812,617
196914,567
197012,038
197114,088
197216,810
197318,417
197422,510
197524,523
197630,766
197730,397
197834,661
197936,334
198027,993
198141,183
198249,185
198349,288
198450,993
198549,869
198634,941
198745,020
198838,044
198935,990
199035,786
199137,218
199237,185
199335,896
199428,723
199522,473
199612,615
199711,353
19986,316
1999996
200047
200135
200216
20032
20052
20061
200775
20085,902
20094
20103,169
201147
201290
2013968
201412,716
20151,651
20163
201717

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 113 years between 1896–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Santosh Kumar Ghosh, b. 1920Santosh Dutta, b. 1925Santosh Gangwar, b. 1948Santosh Sivan, b. 1964Santosh Yadav, b. 1967Santosh Ram, b. 1979Santosh Juvekar, b. 1984Santosh Sahukhala, b. 1988Tamannaah Bhatia, b. 1989

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 39 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Santosh
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—55K#97
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198451K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198550K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198349K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198249K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198745K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198141K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198838K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199137K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199237K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197936K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198936K—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 · 311 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Santosh?
We estimate roughly 67 thousand people bear Santosh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Santosh have the most bearers?
Santosh is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled santosh.
How common is Santosh compared with other names?
In India, Santosh is the 10th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Santosh a male or female name?
Santosh is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Santosh” — the 10th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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