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The santo Surname

santo Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese: from the personal name Santo, from santo ‘holy’. In some instances the surname may have arisen from a nickname for a pious individual.
  2. Americanized spelling of Hungarian Szántó (see Szanto).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of santo Families in the US in 1920
Number of santo families
 40-77
 14-39		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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