Ventura
The boy's name Ventura has been in the national records since 1908, with 1,532 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 940 Venturas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ventura boys named Ventura
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,532
- Estimated living today
- 940
- Median age today
- 41
- Peak year
- 1938
- Best rank
- 1,397th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1908
- Girls / boys
- 231 / 1,301
How old the living Venturas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,532 babies given the name since 1908, about 940 are alive — 61 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Venturas
- Ventura Alvarado (born 1992)American soccer player
- Ventura Rodríguez (1717–1785)Spanish architect
- Ventura Pons (1945–2024)Catalan film director
- Ventura Ruiz Aguilera (1820–1881)Spanish poet
- Ventura de la Vega (1807–1865)Argentine playwright and writer
People named Ventura with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ventura is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ventura is most concentrated in Texas (9.9×), California (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1938
The most popular boys’ names the year Ventura peaked:
Ventura elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Ventura | 15 | 1,611th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Where Ventura lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,830 men called Ventura and 474 women called Ventura were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Badajoz | Ventura | 131 | 0.399 | 240 |
| Salamanca | Ventura | 47 | 0.295 | 319 |
| Zamora | Ventura | 21 | 0.256 | 352 |
| Pontevedra | Ventura | 78 | 0.171 | 419 |
| Ourense | Ventura | 22 | 0.150 | 459 |
| Cáceres | Ventura | 28 | 0.146 | 490 |
Listed in 46 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 6 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaén | Ventura | 38 | 0.122 | 506 |
| Badajoz | Ventura | 39 | 0.116 | 557 |
| Coruña, A | Ventura | 45 | 0.076 | 798 |
| Zamora | Ventura | 5 | 0.060 | 933 |
| Ciudad Real | Ventura | 13 | 0.052 | 964 |
| Albacete | Ventura | 9 | 0.046 | 1,043 |
Listed in 21 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 31 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ventura against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.