Surname statistics for Santos

There are approximately 4,219 people named Santos in the UK. That makes it the 2,476th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 67 are named Santos.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)42192476N/A67
United Kingdom (1881 census)1951989less than 0.0011
Change since 1881+4200+49513+66
Other Countries
United States98993279N/A367
Australia10911516N/A67

Top male forenames

Jose Santos
Luis Santos
Paulo Santos
Carlos Santos
Antonio Santos
Manuel Santos
Fabio Santos
Pedro Santos
Mark Santos
John Santos
Mario Santos
Fernando Santos
Nelson Santos
Joao Santos
Paul Santos
Miguel Santos
Victor Santos
Bruno Santos
Alexandre Santos
Alberto Santos

Top female forenames

Maria Santos
Ana Santos
Adriana Santos
Lucy Santos
Lena Santos
Carla Santos
Sarah Santos
Sonia Santos
Monica Santos
Mary Santos
Marianne Santos
Susan Santos
Paula Santos
Isabella Santos
Anne Santos
Caroline Santos
Christine Santos
Corazon Santos
Edna Santos
Elizabeth Santos

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.