Top 20 Santa Cruz Influencers: Find Influencers in Santa Cruz (Sep 2026)

We found 38 Santa Cruz Influencers in United States
Here's the top 20 of them, ordered by which creators have the highest percentage of their audience in Santa Cruz. To run a custom search, check out Modash's influencer discovery features (free to try).
09/10/2026
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3. Darryl "Flea" Virostko

United States

Happy surfer with positive change in mind. 🤙🏾

Followers
14.6k
Fake followers
23.39%
Engagement rate
1.6%
Average Reel plays
17k
Audience gender
female
19.08%
male
80.93%
Top performing Reels
  1. 49.5k
  2. 32.7k
  3. 1.8k
Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by city
Santa Cruz
12.46%
Los Angeles
3.92%
San Francisco
2.64%
San Diego
2.61%
Honolulu
2.32%
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5. Lily Belli

United States

Food & Drink Journalist at @lookoutsantacruz. Read my work at lookoutsantacruz.com.

Followers
12.1k
Fake followers
10.66%
Engagement rate
3.2%
Average Reel plays
13.7k
Audience gender
female
62.13%
male
37.87%
Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by city
Santa Cruz
42.08%
San Francisco
2.8%
Los Angeles
2.64%
Capitola
2.17%
Watsonville
2.17%
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6. hannah muse 〰️ grounded x mythical spirituality

United States

〰️grounded spirituality 〰️non-bypassy joy 〰️nondual yoga & mythology ▿ retreat: Nepal, Esalen, more ▿ meditate online ▿ YFAM Pres ▿ mama

Followers
9.3k
Fake followers
32.4%
Engagement rate
1.16%
Average Reel plays
3.1k
Audience gender
female
67.2%
male
32.8%
Top performing Reels
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  2. Jai Maa... we bought a home! 1882 Victorian, Santa Cruz, CA. Rich with history. Adorned with beauty. And now, imbued with our love 💗 I've rented since I left home at 18. So this feels exceptionally celebratory. Exciting. Also, terrifying. Also, since I don't subscribe to conventional beliefs re ownership, esp land ownership, complex. What feels incredibly clear + coherent: this new beginning is not really about owning a thing. It's about practice: practicing being a devoted steward to life's gifts. It's about grounding commitment, creating nurturing spaces, fostering beauty in the world. Honoring a long lineage of care. It's about sacred reciprocity, a dedicated caring relationship w/a friend who also cares for me, my family, community. It's about vast possibility. This home, she's a living being, an ancestor. I feel the spirit of artisans who carved the spiral staircase, the devotion of human+horse helpers who gathered redwood for her from nearby forests - before cars existed! I feel her essence, also her personality - let me tell you, she's a delight! Also, sturdy. Dependable. I feel her inspiring me into questions I've long pondered: What if we lived in a culture where nothing and no one was a throwaway? Where we treated every thing+being as precious, nondisposable. What if we purchase less crap, and things we choose to have: Loving them, taking good care, honoring them, letting go when it's someone else's turn? Yoga taught me about nonattachment - a key teaching re how suffering is rooted in grasping, clinging. Not just to things, but more insidiously, to beliefs, thoughts, narratives. Nonattachment is NOT teaching us to dishonor beings/things. In fact, yoga has shown me how to be MORE intimate in my relations. To connect + grieve + value more deeply. To live + love more fully! To see the divinity in everyone/thing, even when conditioned mind has concretized a story, probs due to experiencing fear. Nondual tantra philosophy: if god is anywhere, god is everywhere. I bow to the divinity of this home, and vow to bless her w/ family, adorn her w/ altars, and relentlessly imbue her with love. What grace.🥹 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. #home
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Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by city
Santa Cruz
10.99%
Los Angeles
3.44%
Denver
2.81%
San Francisco
2.19%
Des Moines
1.44%
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8. Joaquin Bridges

United States

Ambassador for @revgrips and @magura_bicycle Husband, father of 3, love taking photos of my family, mountain biking and lots of other things

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9. Keanna Miller

United States

Surfer 🤍 Born & raised in Santa Cruz Cal Poly Slo

Followers
8.6k
Fake followers
18.41%
Engagement rate
5.13%
Average Reel plays
3.8k
Audience gender
female
47.16%
male
52.84%
Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by city
Santa Cruz
29.24%
San Clemente
2.68%
Huntington Beach
2.61%
Los Angeles
2.35%
San Francisco
2.09%
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10. Darshan Gooch

United States
Followers
8.5k
Fake followers
19.64%
Engagement rate
5.17%
Average Reel plays
7.2k
Audience gender
female
20.14%
male
79.86%
Top performing Reels
  1. 6.3k
  2. 1k
  3. 1k
Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by city
Santa Cruz
16.13%
Los Angeles
4.1%
San Francisco
3.25%
San Diego
2.05%
Santa Barbara
1.74%

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11. Tyler Fox

United States

Ocean Athlete / Entrepreneur / Environmental Advocate🌏

Followers
8.3k
Fake followers
29.25%
Engagement rate
3.29%
Average Reel plays
2k
Audience gender
female
34.68%
male
65.32%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by city
Santa Cruz
20.99%
San Francisco
3.29%
Los Angeles
3.13%
Capitola
2.36%
San Diego
1.75%
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12. Stephen Louis Marino

United States

See the link below to get prints, posters, and my books "@ UC Santa Cruz" (Volume One and Two) simply by making a donation to a UCSC scholarship fund.

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16. Jason Wayne

United States

🗡️ @tigerrosetattooog 🖤 @_samanthaaaa_nicole_

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17. Joe Kaplow

United States

Summer Tour Tickets & New Music 🌵

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18. Adam Bartlett

United States

USA Jr. National Team 🇺🇸 Santa Cruz, CA @quiksilver @playingbigger @pacificwave @oakleysurfing @fcs_surf @lostsurfboards Isaiah 43:2 ✝️

Followers
6.2k
Fake followers
16.22%
Engagement rate
10.44%
Average Reel plays
30k
Audience gender
female
27.84%
male
72.16%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by city
Santa Cruz
38.92%
Capitola
2.98%
San Francisco
2.56%
Santa Barbara
2.27%
Half Moon Bay
1.56%
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19. Tasha Brianne Zigerelli

United States

rebirthing + reinventing on moku o keawe 🌱 writer and mother ceremonial grief companion/MSW student weaving words on the portals from birth to death

Followers
6.1k
Fake followers
18.57%
Engagement rate
1.64%
Average Reel plays
2.5k
Audience gender
female
61.63%
male
38.37%
Top performing Reels
  1. 4.3k
  2. 3.6k
  3. Our family is growing 🌙 Another ancient one has chosen me; us to be born on the same land & around the same time as their papa. 2.5 years ago in a sacred valley on this island I gave my womb blood back to the earth in a ritual that would deeply imprint & change the course of our entire lives. The spirits & ancestors of this place & beyond spoke loudly to me, that another being was to grace our family, and that they must be born here, on this incredibly powerful land of pele & poliahu, true mother, Hawai’i Nei. The pilgrimage of their birth began that day. At the time, we didn’t know if we wanted anymore children, but this prayer stuck with me, gnawed at me, and all I can say is the spirit of this one is fierce, as fierce as an Aries dragon can be. 2 weeks before we moved, we wrote letters to this beautiful one (including our tiny rose queen daughter) and burned them in the river in Big Sur along with more womb blood. A devotional, soulful prayer filled the air. I knew I was pregnant one week after we landed into our new home. I share this story because CONSCIOUS CONCEPTION and SPIRIT BABIES are real. And intention like this around pregnancy and parenting is HUGE and I would even say CRUCIAL to be on this journey in right and full relationship. I also acknowledge our immense privilege to conceive with such ease and feel deep gratitude for that daily. Many more writings and sharings on this to come. Magic and power is abound. We are all SO excited, and for anyone who knows our daughter, knows what an amazing big sister she is going to be 🌊💗 #growth #family #chooselove #motherhood #sacredpregnancy #bigisland #hawaii #kingdomofhawaii #ancestors #land #birthing #homebirth #pregnancy #mamahood #seasonofmotherhood #pilgrimage #ancientone #spiritbabies #soulbabies #consciousconception #conceived #prayers #pele #motherland #bigsister
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Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by city
Santa Cruz
11.15%
Los Angeles
5%
Portland
2.99%
San Francisco
2.45%
Nevada City
1.79%
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20. DEREK PRATT

United States

❤️ DEREKADPRATT@GMAIL.COM 🧡 EMAIL OR DM FOR APPOINTMENTS 💛 F/U TATTOO 💚 SANTA CRUZ, CA 💙 @futattooshop 💜 @little.giant.collective

Followers
5.7k
Fake followers
16.38%
Engagement rate
3.69%
Average Reel plays
3.5k
Audience gender
female
50.98%
male
49.02%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by city
Santa Cruz
26.42%
Los Angeles
5.52%
San Francisco
5.52%
Portland
4.33%
Oakland
3.33%

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