The Italian name Santino is a diminutive of Santo, which means ‘saint’ in Italian. It goes back to the Latin word ‘sanctus’.
Santino is a first name for boys.
The name Santino isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Santino ranks 534. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Santino. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Santino.
The Italian name Santino is a diminutive of Santo, which means ‘saint’ in Italian. It goes back to the Latin word ‘sanctus’.
In the U.S.,.... Santino is in use since the late 1990s.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With seven letters, the name Santino has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Santino and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Santino, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Nut
Tiger
Igloo
Nut
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Santino
Santino
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
A
N
T
I
N
O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
A
N
T
I
N
O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Santino sounds like this:
