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

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Peak · boys
1938 · 23 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,301
since 1910

Ventura over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201938peak #1,862, 1908peak #1,397, 1938girlsboys
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#14,9425
2024#15,2935#8,9878
2023
2022#9,8237
2021
2020#7,50210
2019#7,64310
2018#8,1549
2017#8,8408
2016#9,6647
2015
2014#12,1085
2013#8,7898
2012#10,7706
2011#7,50210
2010#7,59110
2009#8,3109
2008#5,24917
2007#7,09411
2006#7,42710
2005#7,09610
2004#6,13812
2003#5,87712
2002#6,52210
2001#6,44510
2000#4,38917
1999#6,5309
1998#5,15912
1997#3,87717
1996#13,5185#3,10723
1995#11,7836#4,05215
1994#3,59618
1993#3,36819
1992#13,3175#3,45918
1991#3,46217
1990#12,9585#3,97114
1989#3,61815
1988#8,3918#3,07917
1987#4,9688
1986#10,9125#5,3327
1985#4,05210
1984#3,45912
1983#10,2755#4,1419
1982#4,2349
1981#3,22113
1980#3,83810
1979#10,2105#2,46519
1978#3,21512
1977#3,60610
1976#4,9356
1975#7,9846#2,75114
1974#3,31810
1973#7,4356#2,71613
1972#2,15818
1971#3,3709
1970#2,89111
1969#2,68211
1968#2,73510
1967#2,24213
1966#2,21613
1965#2,08415
1964#2,40912
1963#6,5925#2,41412
1962#1,75721
1961#3,0978
1960#3,0778
1959#2,53011
1958#2,64210
1957#6,0865#2,8229
1956#5,9525#1,76520
1955#2,43511
1954#2,44911
1953#1,83618
1952#2,07314
1951#2,05514
1950#3,42310#2,43810
1949#2,12313
1948#2,11513
1947#2,16913
1946#2,6908
1945#1,44521
1944#1,73816
1943#1,76417
1942#2,5239
1941#2,8727
1940#2,6718
1939
1938#3,8476#1,39723
1937#4,2555#2,33210
1936#3,5495
1935#2,12712
1934#2,42412#2,7428
1933#3,1098#2,21411
1932#4,4115#2,8498
1931#4,3315#1,64319
1930#4,5505#2,7819
1929#3,3948#1,67220
1928#3,4368#1,61122
1927#3,8757#2,12115
1926#2,18614
1925#3,6648#2,01216
1924#1,67522
1923#3,3509#2,02016
1922#3,3799#3,0149
1921#2,50212
1920#2,89911#1,64222
1919#2,51111
1918#4,8095#3,0968
1917
1916#4,4175#3,1777
1915#3,1348#3,8255
1914#3,6185#3,2645
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1911
1910#2,3985#1,4216
1909
1908#1,8626
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First appearance
1910

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
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · boys
28 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1910
  • Peaked 1938 at #1,397 (23 births)
  • Births halved by 1939, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 32,368
  • 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
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 12.9% of all boys named Ventura (168) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
  • Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s42#1,421 (1910)#2,882
1920s168#1,611 (1928)#2,046
1930s105#1,397 (1938)#2,404
1940s125#1,445 (1945)#2,211
1950s128#1,765 (1956)#2,305
1960s123#1,757 (1962)#2,471
1970s122#2,158 (1972)#3,143
1980s110#3,079 (1988)#3,994
1990s162#3,107 (1996)#4,058
2000s118#4,389 (2000)#6,455
2010s73#7,502 (2011)#9,007
2020s25#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

girls
#3,847
6 births · 1 in 183,909 girls
boys
#1,397
23 births · 1 in 48,224 boys

Top girls' names in 1938

  1. #1Mary56,225
  2. #2Barbara39,277
  3. #3Patricia27,560
  4. #4Betty25,506
  5. #5Shirley23,766
  6. #6Carol19,421
  7. #7Nancy18,951
  8. #8Dorothy16,358
  9. #9Margaret15,330
  10. #10Joan14,303
  11. #3,847Ventura6

Top boys' names in 1938

  1. #1Robert62,271
  2. #2James59,102
  3. #3John50,517
  4. #4William42,433
  5. #5Richard34,385
  6. #6Charles31,151
  7. #7Donald26,677
  8. #8David22,994
  9. #9Thomas21,381
  10. #10Ronald20,295
  11. #1,397Ventura23
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).

Ranked beside Ventura
  1. #3,450Yvetta7
  2. #3,450Zelphia7
  3. #3,450Zelta7
  4. #3,847Ventura6
  5. #3,847Adaline6
  6. #3,847Adlean6
  7. #3,847Adlene6
  8. #4,342Aaron5
  9. #4,342Abbey5
  10. #4,342Adean5

Tied with 494 names at #3,847; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1937
Risers
  1. 2,209Danielle#2,940#731
  2. 833Lorelei#1,451#618
  3. 623Helaine#1,493#870
  4. 399Janine#1,330#931
  5. 392Imelda#1,282#890
Fallers
  1. 1,261Noreta#964#2,225
  2. 513Norita#532#1,045
  3. 432Noretta#856#1,288
  4. 366Ferne#950#1,316
  5. 327Verdell#904#1,231

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).

Ranked beside Ventura
  1. #1,364Ransom24
  2. #1,364Thelbert24
  3. #1,364Vergil24
  4. #1,397Ventura23
  5. #1,397Amado23
  6. #1,397Augustin23
  7. #1,397Benjaman23
  8. #1,439Alfonzo22
  9. #1,439Anna22
  10. #1,439Ansel22

Tied with 41 names at #1,397; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1937
Risers
  1. 1,314Dion#2,197#883
  2. 448Tex#1,212#764
  3. 425Lonny#1,233#808
  4. 401Gonzalo#1,180#779
  5. 383Lance#722#339
Fallers
  1. 741Worth#1,000#1,741
  2. 528Estel#869#1,397
  3. 492Milburn#845#1,337
  4. 412Lonzo#835#1,247
  5. 405Joy#932#1,337

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

See the top 100 for 1938