Ventura
Ventura is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 193823 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1910
- 1,527people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,301 boys have been named Ventura in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1938, with 23 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1966, and the 1920s alone account for 13%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 226 girls have also been given it, 15% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ventura | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 42 | |
| 1920s | 168 | |
| 1930s | 105 | |
| 1940s | 125 | |
| 1950s | 128 | |
| 1960s | 123 | |
| 1970s | 122 | |
| 1980s | 110 | |
| 1990s | 162 | |
| 2000s | 118 | |
| 2010s | 73 | |
| 2020s | 25 |
In 1938, its biggest year
Ventura was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1938 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1938.
Names that rose and fell with Ventura
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rosaliopeak 1994
- Porfiriopeak 1921
- Candelariopeak 1929
- Anselmopeak 1990
- Sabinopeak 2001
- Delfinopeak 1999
- Eulaliopeak 1929
- Bernardinopeak 1974
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.