Venelope — girls' name
76 babies named Venelope in U.S. Social Security records since 2013, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
62% of everyone ever named Venelope was born in this single decade.
11 babies were named Venelope in 2020 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Venelope
The Social Security Administration has registered 76 babies named Venelope between 2013 and 2023, spanning 11 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Venelope currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 11 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Venelope performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 47 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Venelope shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Venelope in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 76 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Venelope at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Venelope popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–2013
- Peak year (2020)
- 11
- Annual births at peak — across 11 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
76 total births across 11 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2020 with 11 births in a single year.
Venelope by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 47 births that decade — 62% of Venelope's all-time total
Venelope decade highlights
- Peak decade 47 births
- Runner-up 29 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Venelope's strongest decade
47 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 62% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2013–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.