Santana is a Spanish and Portuguese surname contracted from Santa Ana, "Saint Anne", the mother of the Virgin Mary, and it names towns across Latin America. As a first name it owes almost everything to guitarist Carlos Santana, whose band made the word synonymous with Latin rock from the 1970s on. Santana entered the US top 1000 for boys in 2013, peaked at number 544 in 2020 and ranks number 855 in 2025.