Santiago is a masculine
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.[1] It is traditionally believed that Saint James (Santiago) had travelled to the Iberian Peninsula during his life and was buried there. The name is complicated in Spanish in that Jaime and Jacobo are modern versions of
James.[citation needed]
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 and Iago (in Galician), Jaume, Xaume (in Catalan), Jaime, Jacobo, and Diego (in Spanish) and Jacó or Jacob, Jaime and Diogo (in Portuguese). Despite being a
cognate,
San Diego does not refer to Saint James but to Saint
Didacus of Alcalá.[citation needed]
^New York, E. P. Dutton, 1957, OCLC 28087235; reprinted by the Univ. of California Press in 1965 (OCLC 477436336) and published in Spanish translation in 1958 with the somewhat different title of El camino de Santiago: las peregrinaciones al sepulcro del Apóstol, trans. Amando Lázaro Ros, Madrid, Aguilar, 1958, OCLC 432856567. Both the English original and the translation have been republished.
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Santiago is a masculine
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.[1] It is traditionally believed that Saint James (Santiago) had travelled to the Iberian Peninsula during his life and was buried there. The name is complicated in Spanish in that Jaime and Jacobo are modern versions of
James.[citation needed]
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 and Iago (in Galician), Jaume, Xaume (in Catalan), Jaime, Jacobo, and Diego (in Spanish) and Jacó or Jacob, Jaime and Diogo (in Portuguese). Despite being a
cognate,
San Diego does not refer to Saint James but to Saint
Didacus of Alcalá.[citation needed]
^New York, E. P. Dutton, 1957, OCLC 28087235; reprinted by the Univ. of California Press in 1965 (OCLC 477436336) and published in Spanish translation in 1958 with the somewhat different title of El camino de Santiago: las peregrinaciones al sepulcro del Apóstol, trans. Amando Lázaro Ros, Madrid, Aguilar, 1958, OCLC 432856567. Both the English original and the translation have been republished.
Name list
This page or section lists people that share the same
given name. If an
internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.