Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese: from the personal name
Santo, from santo ‘holy’. In some instances the surname
may have arisen from a nickname for a pious individual.Americanized spelling of Hungarian Szántó (see
Szanto).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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