Venessa vs Vennie
American parents have registered 5,767 Venessas since 1880, against 1,410 Vennies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Venessa Vennie
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 140 years in which either name was published, Venessa for 73 years and Vennie for 67 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.
Side by side
| Venessa | Vennie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 5,767 | 1,410 |
| Most in one year | 239 | 44 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 5,400 | 270 |
| Median age today | 43 | 74 |
| Peak year | 1984 | 1917 |
| Best rank | 696th girls | 1,065th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1922 | 1884 |
| Girls / boys | 5,767 / 0 | 1,339 / 71 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Vennies alive today are over 74; half the Venessas are over 43. That is 31 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Venessa New Mexico (4.6×), Texas (3.1×), Arizona (2.7×)
- Vennie Alabama (7.8×), North Carolina (7.5×), Tennessee (4.7×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Venessa and Vennie.