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Venancio vs Venice

American parents have registered 3,232 Venices since 1880, against 521 Venancios. Venice is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Venancio Venice

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 Venancio for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Venancio Venice
Total US births 5213,232
Most in one year 1563
Babies in 2025 under 532
Estimated living today 4202,100
Median age today 3229
Peak year 20031921
Best rank 5,035th boys935th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,238th
First recorded 19191895
Girls / boys 0 / 5212,946 / 286

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 Venancios alive today are over 32; half the Venices are over 29. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Venancio Venice
France 105

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Venancio and Venice.