Ventura

41,204 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ventura in the 2020 census, making it the 819th most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,254.

By the numbers

People: 41,204
Rank: 819th
How common: 1 in 7,254
Per 100,000: 13.8

Where the name comes from

From Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish surname, from a medieval form of Bonaventura, Buenaventura, meaning "good fortune.".

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ventura described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 75.9%
White, not Hispanic 17.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Ventura

Lino Ventura (1919–1987)Italian actor
Jesse Ventura (born 1951)American professional wrestler and 38th governor of Minnesota
Cassie Ventura (born 1986)American singer, dancer, actress, and model
Gian Piero Ventura (born 1948)Italian football player and manager
André Ventura (born 1983)Portuguese politician and Member of Parliament for the Lisbon District of Portugal and State Councillor of Portugal
Santiago Ventura (born 1980)Spanish tennis player
Carlos Eduardo Ventura (born 1974)Brazilian association football player
José Ramón Machado Ventura (born 1930)Cuban politician

People named Ventura with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ventura

Also a first name

Ventura has been given to 1,532 American babies as a first name since 1908, peaking in 1938. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.