Venetia

Where Venetia comes from

Uncertain.
— Wiktionary's entry for Venetia
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,031 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1958
    Peak, #1,051
    99 babies named Venetia — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1962
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,690.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin used since the late Middle Ages.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.