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Venice vs Venna

American parents have registered 3,232 Venices since 1880, against 531 Vennas. Venice is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Venice against Venna, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Venice Venna

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 130 years in which either name was published, Venice for 129 years and Venna for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Venice Venna
Total US births 3,232531
Most in one year 6319
Babies in 2025 329
Estimated living today 2,100220
Median age today 2920
Peak year 19211921
Best rank 935th girls2,048th girls
Rank in 2025 5,238th10,107th
First recorded 18951900
Girls / boys 2,946 / 286531 / 0

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 Venices alive today are over 29; half the Vennas are over 20. That is 9 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: Venice and Venna.