Vena vs Venetta

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Vena Venetta

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 124 years in which either name was published, Vena for 107 years and Venetta for 17 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.

• 1880–1946 Vena ahead
• 1951–1963 Venetta ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1964–1974 Vena ahead
• 1975–1977 Venetta ahead
• 1982–2024 Vena ahead, apart from one short spell

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Venettas alive today are over 63; half the Venas are over 60. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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