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Venecia vs Venice

American parents have registered 3,232 Venices since 1880, against 840 Venecias. Venice is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Venecia 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 120 years and Venecia for 10 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

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

Side by side

  Venecia Venice
Total US births 8403,232
Most in one year 2863
Babies in 2025 1032
Estimated living today 8102,100
Median age today 2929
Peak year 20001921
Best rank 4,291st girls935th girls
Rank in 2025 9,457th5,238th
First recorded 19561895
Girls / boys 840 / 02,946 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

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: Venecia and Venice.