Ventura
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #8,987
Given to boys 84.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1938 · 23 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,301since 1910
Ventura over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | — | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | #9,823 | 7 | |
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | — | #7,502 | 10 | |
| 2019 | — | #7,643 | 10 | |
| 2018 | — | #8,154 | 9 | |
| 2017 | — | #8,840 | 8 | |
| 2016 | — | #9,664 | 7 | |
| 2015 | — | — | ||
| 2014 | — | #12,108 | 5 | |
| 2013 | — | #8,789 | 8 | |
| 2012 | — | #10,770 | 6 | |
| 2011 | — | #7,502 | 10 | |
| 2010 | — | #7,591 | 10 | |
| 2009 | — | #8,310 | 9 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,249 | 17 | |
| 2007 | — | #7,094 | 11 | |
| 2006 | — | #7,427 | 10 | |
| 2005 | — | #7,096 | 10 | |
| 2004 | — | #6,138 | 12 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,877 | 12 | |
| 2002 | — | #6,522 | 10 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,445 | 10 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,389 | 17 | |
| 1999 | — | #6,530 | 9 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,159 | 12 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,877 | 17 | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #3,107 | 23 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | — | #3,596 | 18 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,368 | 19 | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | — | #3,462 | 17 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #3,971 | 14 |
| 1989 | — | #3,618 | 15 | |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | #3,079 | 17 |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | — | #4,052 | 10 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,459 | 12 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | — | #4,234 | 9 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,221 | 13 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,838 | 10 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #2,465 | 19 |
| 1978 | — | #3,215 | 12 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,606 | 10 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | #2,751 | 14 |
| 1974 | — | #3,318 | 10 | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #2,716 | 13 |
| 1972 | — | #2,158 | 18 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,891 | 11 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,682 | 11 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,735 | 10 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,242 | 13 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,216 | 13 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,084 | 15 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,409 | 12 | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | #2,414 | 12 |
| 1962 | — | #1,757 | 21 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,530 | 11 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,642 | 10 | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | #2,822 | 9 |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | #1,765 | 20 |
| 1955 | — | #2,435 | 11 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,449 | 11 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,836 | 18 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,073 | 14 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,055 | 14 | |
| 1950 | #3,423 | 10 | #2,438 | 10 |
| 1949 | — | #2,123 | 13 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,115 | 13 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,169 | 13 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,690 | 8 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,445 | 21 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,738 | 16 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,764 | 17 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,523 | 9 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,671 | 8 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 | #1,397 | 23 |
| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | #2,332 | 10 |
| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,127 | 12 | |
| 1934 | #2,424 | 12 | #2,742 | 8 |
| 1933 | #3,109 | 8 | #2,214 | 11 |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 | #2,849 | 8 |
| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 | #1,643 | 19 |
| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 | #2,781 | 9 |
| 1929 | #3,394 | 8 | #1,672 | 20 |
| 1928 | #3,436 | 8 | #1,611 | 22 |
| 1927 | #3,875 | 7 | #2,121 | 15 |
| 1926 | — | #2,186 | 14 | |
| 1925 | #3,664 | 8 | #2,012 | 16 |
| 1924 | — | #1,675 | 22 | |
| 1923 | #3,350 | 9 | #2,020 | 16 |
| 1922 | #3,379 | 9 | #3,014 | 9 |
| 1921 | — | #2,502 | 12 | |
| 1920 | #2,899 | 11 | #1,642 | 22 |
| 1919 | — | #2,511 | 11 | |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 | #3,096 | 8 |
| 1917 | — | — | ||
| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 | #3,177 | 7 |
| 1915 | #3,134 | 8 | #3,825 | 5 |
| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 | #3,264 | 5 |
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | #2,398 | 5 | #1,421 | 6 |
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | #1,862 | 6 | — | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
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| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Ventura! It came in at #1,421, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1911–1915, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ventura
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1910
- Peaked 1938 at #1,397 (23 births)
- Births halved by 1939, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 32,368 boys born in 1910 were named Ventura (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 215,361 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,397 in 1938, was only 1 in 48,224 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 12.9% of all boys named Ventura (168) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 42 | #1,421 (1910) | #2,882 |
| 1920s | 168 | #1,611 (1928) | #2,046 |
| 1930s | 105 | #1,397 (1938) | #2,404 |
| 1940s | 125 | #1,445 (1945) | #2,211 |
| 1950s | 128 | #1,765 (1956) | #2,305 |
| 1960s | 123 | #1,757 (1962) | #2,471 |
| 1970s | 122 | #2,158 (1972) | #3,143 |
| 1980s | 110 | #3,079 (1988) | #3,994 |
| 1990s | 162 | #3,107 (1996) | #4,058 |
| 2000s | 118 | #4,389 (2000) | #6,455 |
| 2010s | 73 | #7,502 (2011) | #9,007 |
| 2020s | 25 | #7,502 (2020) | #8,771 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ventura in 1938
Top girls' names in 1938
Top boys' names in 1938
More about 1938
girls
1,103,456 girls got a published name in 1938; 1 in 183,909 of them was named Ventura, which outranked 23.0% of the 4,995 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,450Yvetta7
- #3,450Zelphia7
- #3,450Zelta7
- #3,847Ventura6
- #3,847Adaline6
- #3,847Adlean6
- #3,847Adlene6
- #4,342Aaron5
- #4,342Abbey5
- #4,342Adean5
Tied with 494 names at #3,847; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,109,147 boys got a published name in 1938; 1 in 48,224 of them was named Ventura, which outranked 65.4% of the 4,035 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,364Ransom24
- #1,364Thelbert24
- #1,364Vergil24
- #1,397Ventura23
- #1,397Amado23
- #1,397Augustin23
- #1,397Benjaman23
- #1,439Alfonzo22
- #1,439Anna22
- #1,439Ansel22
Tied with 41 names at #1,397; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.