Where the spelling 산티아고 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 산티아고 for Santiago.
Wiktionary records Santiago as a name from Spanish, so it is read as a name in Spanish.
People in the list with this given name:
- 라소 (멘도사), 기예르모 (알베르토 산티아고) — Lasso (Mendoza), Guillermo (Alberto Santiago)
Sound by sound
san산ti티a아go고
Why it is spelled this way
- This looks like a name in Spanish, so the official Spanish spelling is shown first.
- Matches the National Institute of Korean Language usage list.
What Santiago means
Santiago by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 201, 88,299 babies (0.1% girls, 99.9% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 산티아고: 1.
Korean names for Santiago
These are the converter’s results for Santiago as a boy’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).
Sounds like mine
Closest in sound among real Korean names.
박산Park SanBoy’s name · 77% sound match
이시안Lee SianBoy’s name · 55% sound match
이선우Lee SeonuBoy’s name · 49% sound match
이산 is an everyday Korean word, so 박 is used instead of 이.
Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics