The Desantiago surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,864 people carried this name — #5,100 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 42,900 people counted. That is up 42% from 4,845 in 2000.

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In Argentina’s national register

At least 53 people named Desantiago live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Córdoba.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Córdoba 37
Entre Ríos 16

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In print

Desantiago in American newspapers,
1922–1924.

Newspaper page from El Internacional carrying the name Desantiago
El Internacional 1922-04-07
Newspaper page from The Cordele Dispatch And Daily Sentinel carrying the name Desantiago
The Cordele Dispatch And Daily Sentinel 1924-01-24

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 45 pages in all carry the name.

In the public record

People named Desantiago,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States8 records

8 records of the Desantiago name in the United States
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 4
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 2
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 2
  1. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Andres Desantiago

    U.S. Marine Corps veteran. Born 1942, died 1964; buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Texas.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Cesaria C. Desantiago

    Born 1888 in Mexico. Registered as a foreign national in Madera County, California, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)
  3. An Oregon State Board of Health certificate of death, 1910
    Example: U.S. death certificate, 1910
    Death record Santiago Desantiago

    Died 1903 in Brooklyn, New York, aged 38.

    NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data)

Showing 3 of 8 records for Desantiago in the United States.

Counts: NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0); Certificate of death, Oregon State Board of Health, 1910, Oregon State Archives (public domain).

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