Venisha — girls' name
266 babies named Venisha in U.S. Social Security records since 1970, with the highest year being 1983. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
45% of everyone ever named Venisha was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Venisha in 1983 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Venisha
The Social Security Administration has registered 266 babies named Venisha between 1970 and 2015, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Venisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Venisha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 119 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Venisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Venisha in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Venisha 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 266 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.
Venisha at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Venisha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1970
- Peak year (1983)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 46 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
266 total births across 46 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1983 with 25 births in a single year.
Venisha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 119 births that decade — 45% of Venisha's all-time total
Venisha decade highlights
- Peak decade 119 births
- Runner-up 63 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Venisha's strongest decade
119 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 45% of all-time use.
Venisha by state
Where Venisha concentrates geographically — total births since 1970
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 1.9% |
5 of 266 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 1.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 1.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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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, 1970–2015 (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.