Santiago, (also San Iago, San Tiago, Santyago, Sant-Yago, San Thiago) is a Spanish name that derives from the Hebrew name Jacob (Ya'akov) via "Sant Iago", "Sant Yago", "Santo Iago", or "Santo Yago", first used to denote Saint James the Great, the brother of John the Apostle. It was also the tradition that Saint James (Santiago) had traveled to the Iberian Peninsula during his life and was buried there. The name is also complicated in Spanish in that Jaime and Jacobo are modern versions of James.
Variants of Santiago include Iago (a common Galician language name), and Thiago or Tiago (a common Portuguese language name). The common name James has many forms in Iberia, including Xacobo or Xacobe (in Galician), Jaume, Xaume, Jaime, Jacobo, and Diego (in Spanish). Despite being a cognate, San Diego does not refer to Saint Jacob but to Saint Didacus of Alcalá.
Santiago is also the patron saint of Spain, after whom many cities have been named in Spain itself and throughout its former empire, such as:
The city of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain is dedicated to St. James the Great.
Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador
Santiago de Cuba.
Santiago de Chile.
Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico
Santiago de Cali, Colombia.
Santiago, Philippines
Santiago del Estero, Argentina.
Santiago de los Caballeros, Guatemala.
Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.
"Santi" is the nickname for Santiago, although "Sandy" is frequently used in English-speaking countries.
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, former Nuevo Estadio Chamartín, current home stadium of Real Madrid. It is named after the famous president.
Santiago, a Quechan or Yuma chief in the early 1850s
Santiago Amador, Colombian road cyclist
Santiago Alfredo, Actor, Social Worker (CS MSW), Activist
Santiago Bernabéu, former Real Madrid president
Santiago Botero, Colombian cyclist
Santiago Cabrera, Chilean actor
Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
Santi Cazorla, Spanish footballer
Santi Freixa, Spanish field hockey player
Santiago Iglesias, congressman from Puerto Rico
Santiago de Liniers, French-born defender of Buenos Aires in 1806-1807 and later viceroy
Santiago Lorenzo, Argentine decathlete
Santiago de Murcia, Spanish baroque guitarist and composer
Santiago Palavecino, Argentine boxer
Santiago de la Parte, Spanish long-distance runner
Santiago Phelan, Argentine rugby player and coach
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and physician
Santiago Rodriguez, pianist and professor from Cuba
Santiago Schnell, Venezuelan scientist
Santiago Solari, Argentine footballer
Santiago Cruz, soccer player
Santiago Joseph kho kho player from india
Amy Santiago, detective in Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Luis Santiago, president of Earth in Babylon 5
Santiago Alfredo, hero and protagonist, Castro Enthusiast from movie "Which Way Por Favor"
Santiago Ana, main heroine in the movie "Which Way Por Favor"
Santiago Muñez, Mexican character in the Goal movie series
Santiago Nasar, protagonist of Gabriel García Márquez's novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Santiago Arnavisca, a character from the video game series Rainbow Six
Santiago (The Vampire Chronicles), a character in Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire
Santiago, main character in Paulo Coelho's novel The Alchemist
Santiago, main character in Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago Rivera, a character from the educational computer game series The ClueFinders
Santiago Zavala, a character from Conversation in the Cathedral
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