Vennie

Last seen for girls in 1970 at #7,070 · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #7,905
Given to girls 95.0% of the time

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Peak · girls
1898 · 24 births
Debut · girls
9 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,339
since 1884

Vennie over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201928peak #666, 1898peak #3,024, 1957girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1989#7,9055
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1982#5,6196
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1975#5,4645
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1971#4,9075
1970#7,0706
1969#4,4045
1968#6,2466
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1962#4,5339#3,3057
1961#4,23910
1960#5,6966
1959#4,6258
1958#4,8907#3,9445
1957#3,30913#3,0248
1956#4,4678
1955#3,57111
1954#5,7535#3,8275
1953#5,0406
1952#4,1238
1951#3,7149
1950#5,3015
1949#2,72614
1948#3,13711
1947#2,89813#3,7335
1946#3,21710
1945#3,1329
1944#3,1399#3,4305
1943#2,69512
1942#2,11717
1941#1,88219
1940#3,8636#3,4595
1939#2,73610
1938#2,11315
1937#1,84518
1936#1,50724
1935#1,72020
1934#1,65121
1933#1,65821
1932#1,68521
1931#1,42127
1930#1,34732
1929#1,64223
1928#1,42530
1927#1,66925
1926#1,41432
1925#1,32436
1924#1,32837
1923#1,73624
1922#1,20741
1921#1,40933
1920#1,51129
1919#1,42330
1918#1,56626
1917#1,06544
1916#1,29831
1915#1,57122#3,8255
1914#1,19926
1913#1,06726
1912#1,08023
1911#1,17115
1910#1,03018
1909#93519
1908#88220
1907#79022
1906#68928
1905#90017
1904#88017
1903#93114
1902#97213
1901#96112
1900#1,05313
1899#98311
1898#66624
1897#1,1678
1896#1,04710
1895#1,2028
1894#99810
1893#95510
1892#1,4505
1891#9439
1890#1,0997
1889#1,1476
1888#9598
1887#8608
1886#7789
1885#1,0475
1884#7319
1883
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1881
1880
First appearance
1884

The first year at least five girls were named Vennie! It came in at #731, and was given to 9 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1963–1967, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Vennie
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1970
  • Biggest jump: 501 spots in 1898 (#1,167#666)
  • Biggest drop: 507 spots in 1892 (#943#1,450)
Rise & fade · girls
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1884
  • Peaked 1898 at #666 (24 births)
  • Births halved by 1899, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 18 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1901–1909
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,546
  • Highest: 1 in 10,546 girls born in 1906 were named Vennie (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 291,357 girls born in 1970 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #666 in 1898, was only 1 in 10,782 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 23.2% of all girls named Vennie (310) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1971
  • Mostly girls until 1970, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s45#731 (1884)#920
1890s102#666 (1898)#1,051
1900s175#689 (1906)#899
1910s261#1,030 (1910)#1,247
1920s310#1,207 (1922)#1,467
1930s209#1,347 (1930)#1,768
1940s120#1,882 (1941)#2,881
1950s80#3,309 (1957)#4,479
1960s31#4,239 (1961)#5,179
1970s6#7,070 (1970)#7,070

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Vennie in 1928

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#1,425
30 births · 1 in 38,444 girls

Top girls' names in 1928

  1. #1Mary66,871
  2. #2Betty36,083
  3. #3Dorothy33,733
  4. #4Helen22,937
  5. #5Margaret20,295
  6. #6Ruth17,859
  7. #7Doris16,575
  8. #8Barbara14,872
  9. #9Virginia14,500
  10. #10Shirley14,215
  11. #1,425Vennie30
More about 1928

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1,153,318 girls got a published name in 1928; 1 in 38,444 of them was named Vennie, which outranked 73.8% of the 5,440 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Vennie
  1. #1,394Valda31
  2. #1,394Verma31
  3. #1,394Veta31
  4. #1,425Vennie30
  5. #1,425Aldine30
  6. #1,425Alethia30
  7. #1,425Amada30
  8. #1,469Abby29
  9. #1,469Alexandra29
  10. #1,469Alverna29

Tied with 43 names at #1,425; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1927
Risers
  1. 2,165Jeanine#3,053#888
  2. 1,368Joline#2,256#888
  3. 1,101Lorelei#2,095#994
  4. 1,063Jeannine#1,384#321
  5. 859Romona#1,456#597
Fallers
  1. 860Valencia#924#1,784
  2. 547Kazuko#955#1,502
  3. 386Matilde#924#1,310
  4. 368Glendora#747#1,115
  5. 366Hilma#924#1,290

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1928