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 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 321,054 of them was named Ventura, which outranked 14.7% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,762 names at #10,210; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 90,607 of them was named Ventura, which outranked 65.1% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,379Tyreese20
- #2,379Wiliam20
- #2,379Willian20
- #2,465Ventura19
- #2,465Ace19
- #2,465Agapito19
- #2,465Alva19
- #2,568Adnan18
- #2,568Alaric18
- #2,568Aleksandar18
Tied with 102 names at #2,465; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.