Venetia
Venetia was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 1,276 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Venetia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Venetia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Venetia is “a female given name from Latin used since the late Middle Ages.”
/vəˈniʃə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Venetia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,276, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
99 babies in 1958, the peak
Venetia peaked in 1958, when 99 girls were given it, #1,057 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | #18,276 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,371 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,666 | 2.8 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,349 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,261 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,085 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,623 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,078 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #16,060 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,549 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 8 | #10,475 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,551 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,516 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 11 | #8,039 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #13,079 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,172 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,431 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,266 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,772 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,729 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,531 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,383 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,879 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,352 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,158 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,533 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,620 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,277 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,062 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,192 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,502 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,658 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,627 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,465 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,263 | 12.6 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,485 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,612 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,786 | 13.4 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,650 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,746 | 12.4 |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,739 | 11.9 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,996 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,301 | 14.5 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,706 | 22.9 |
| 1961 | 56 | #1,516 | 27.7 |
| 1960 | 89 | #1,161 | 44.0 |
| 1959 | 84 | #1,163 | 41.5 |
| 1958 | 99 | #1,057 | 49.2 |
| 1957 | 84 | #1,157 | 41.1 |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,596 | 22.4 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,173 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,708 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,210 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,532 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,801 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,947 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,881 | 5.3 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,545 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,789 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,942 | 8.7 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,923 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,227 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,845 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,254 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,265 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,255 | 8.4 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,300 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,207 | 4.4 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,232 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,847 | 10.1 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,276 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,344 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,965 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,342 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,988 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 6 | #5,060 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,575 | 7.5 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,835 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,068 | 9.2 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,236 | 8.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Venetia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Venetia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Venetia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Venetia, and how old are they?
An estimated 980 Americans named Venetia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 48 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,164 people named Venetia (1,157 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,040 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,727 babies since 1880, Venetia is the second most given (15% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Venetia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Venetia and names like it
- Compare Venetia and VenitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sVenetia peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Venetia since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Venetia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Venetia.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Venetia alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.