Venice vs Ventura
American parents have registered 3,232 Venices since 1880, against 1,532 Venturas. Venice is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Venice 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 130 years in which either name was published, Venice for 109 years and Ventura for 21 years. The lead changed hands 22 times.
- 1895–1942 Venice ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1943–1945 Ventura ahead
- 1946–1982 Venice ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 1992–1997 Ventura ahead
- 1998–2025 Venice ahead
13 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Venice | Ventura | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,232 | 1,532 |
| Most in one year | 63 | 33 |
| Babies in 2025 | 32 | 5 |
| Estimated living today | 2,100 | 940 |
| Median age today | 29 | 41 |
| Peak year | 1921 | 1938 |
| Best rank | 935th girls | 1,397th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,238th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1895 | 1908 |
| Girls / boys | 2,946 / 286 | 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 Venturas alive today are over 41; half the Venices are over 29. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Venice Utah (23.1×), California (5.3×), Georgia (1.5×)
- Ventura Texas (9.9×), California (2.2×)
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 | Venice | Ventura |
|---|---|---|
| France | 5 | 15 |
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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Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Venice and Ventura.