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[ 3 syll. san-ta-na, sa-nt-ana ] The boy name Santana is sometimes used as a girl name. Its pronunciation is SaeNTAENah †. Santana is largely used in the Spanish language and its origin is also Spanish. The name's meaning is Saint Ana. According to certain Christian traditions, the mother of the Virgin Mary was Ana. The surname is well-known from the guitarist Carlos Santana (1947-). Santana is uncommon as a baby name for boys. At the modest height of its usage in 2006, 0.010% of baby boys were given the name Santana. It ranked at #877 then. The baby name has since experienced a marked loss in popularity, and is now of infrequent use. Within all boy names in its group, Santana was nonetheless the most widely used in 2008. Though Santana is slightly more popular as a boy name today, there was a period from 1984 to 1992 that it was given more often to girls. From 2006 on, increasingly more boys than girls were named Santana. Baby names that sound like Santana include the name Santino (Italian) and the name Secondino (Italian).
† English pronunciation for Santana: S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"   |
