Santiago

English

Etymology

From Spanish Santiago (“Saint James”)

Proper noun

Santiago

1. The capital city of Chile
2. Santiago de Compostela, a city in Galicia, Spain
3. One of the ten islands of Cape Verde

Synonyms

(Capital of Chile): Santiago de Chile

Related terms

• San Diego

Translations

city in Chile

• Arabic: سَانْتْيَاغُو‎‎ m (santyāḡū)
• Armenian: Սանտյագո (Santyago)
• Azerbaijani: Santyaqo (az)
• Catalan: Santiago (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖地亞哥 (zh), 圣地亚哥 (zh) (Shèngdìyàgē), 聖地牙哥 (zh), 圣地牙哥 (zh) (Shèngdìyágē)

• Danish: Santiago, Santiago de Chile
• Dutch: Santiago (nl)
• Finnish: Santiago (fi)
• Galician: Santiago (gl), Santiago de Chile (gl) m

• Greek: Σαντιάγο (Santiágo)
• Irish: Saintiagó m
• Italian: Santiago f
• Japanese: サンティアゴ (Santiago)
• Korean: 산티아고 (Santiago)
• Lithuanian: Santjagas m
• Portuguese: Santiago (pt) f
• Russian: Сантья́го (ru) m (Santʹjágo)
• Spanish: Santiago (es) m, Santiago de Chile (es) m
• Turkish: Santiago

Anagrams

• Gastonia

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Catalan

Proper noun

Santiago m

1. Santiago

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Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Santiago.

Proper noun

Santiago

1. (biblical) James
2. (uncommon) A male given name
3. A surname​.
4. A municipality of Surigao del Sur, Philippines.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Santiago n

1. Santiago de Chile, capital of Chile.

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Japanese

Romanization

Santiago

1. Rōmaji transcription of サンティアゴ

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Santiago m

1. (biblical) James (name of two of the twelve apostles)
2. A male given name
3. A surname​.

Proper noun

Santiago f

1. Santiago; Santiago de Chile (the capital city of Chile)
2. Santiago (municipality of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Synonyms

• (Santiago de Chile): Santiago do Chile, Santiago de Chile

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Sanctus (“holy, saint”) Iacobus (“James”)

Proper noun

Santiago (m)

1. (biblical) James.
2. A male given name.
3. The name of several cities in Chile, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Galicia (Spain), and several other Spanish-speaking countries.

Related terms

Related terms

• Diego
• Iago
• Jacobo
• Jacob

• Jaime
• San Diego
• Yago

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish.

Proper noun

Santiago

1. (biblical) James
2. (uncommon) A male given name
3. Any of several places in the Philippines named after the saint
   1. A city in Isabela, Philippines.
   2. A municipality of Ilocos Sur, Philippines.
   3. A municipality of Surigao del Sur, Philippines.

Santiago

1. A surname​.

Statistics

According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Santiago is the 4,121^st most common surname in the Philippines, occurring at 3,283 individuals.