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 1953
Top boys' names in 1953
More about 1953
boys
1,972,299 boys got a published name in 1953; 1 in 109,572 of them was named Ventura, which outranked 57.7% of the 4,341 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,765Virginia19
- #1,765West19
- #1,765Zenon19
- #1,836Ventura18
- #1,836Adlai18
- #1,836Alphonza18
- #1,836Arland18
- #1,900Alferd17
- #1,900Andris17
- #1,900Arlis17
Tied with 63 names at #1,836; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.