Veneta vs Ventura
American parents have registered 1,532 Venturas since 1880, against 748 Venetas. Ventura is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Veneta Ventura
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 118 years in which either name was published, Ventura for 91 years and Veneta for 27 years. The lead changed hands 19 times.
- 1896–1919 Veneta ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1923–1935 Ventura ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1939–1942 Veneta ahead
- 1943–2025 Ventura ahead, apart from 3 short spells
10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Veneta | Ventura | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 748 | 1,532 |
| Most in one year | 25 | 33 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 5 |
| Estimated living today | 210 | 940 |
| Median age today | 72 | 41 |
| Peak year | 1915 | 1938 |
| Best rank | 1,439th girls | 1,397th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1896 | 1908 |
| Girls / boys | 748 / 0 | 231 / 1,301 |
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 Venetas alive today are over 72; half the Venturas are over 41. That is 31 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Veneta and Ventura.