Venita
Venita was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 5,708 Americans have been recorded with it between 1901 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,410 Americans named Venita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (60% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 56 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Venita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Venita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,053, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
243 babies in 1960, the peak
Venita peaked in 1960, when 243 girls were given it, #649 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #15,053 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,121 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,426 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,556 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,372 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,344 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,715 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,706 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #11,093 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,523 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 10 | #8,768 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,700 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,270 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,958 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,160 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 25 | #4,004 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,664 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,977 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,638 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,725 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,911 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,270 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,088 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,720 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,064 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,856 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,349 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 46 | #2,090 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 72 | #1,463 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 75 | #1,414 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,880 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 53 | #1,711 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 46 | #1,855 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 73 | #1,444 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 67 | #1,502 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 70 | #1,384 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 83 | #1,195 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 80 | #1,194 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 70 | #1,303 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 89 | #1,128 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 95 | #1,134 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 107 | #1,042 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 137 | #903 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 199 | #738 | 0.10 |
| 1960 | 243 | #649 | 0.12 |
| 1959 | 172 | #780 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 157 | #804 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 143 | #848 | 0.07 |
| 1956 | 139 | #843 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 125 | #871 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 124 | #850 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 151 | #745 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 88 | #1,006 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 64 | #1,175 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 78 | #1,039 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 71 | #1,068 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 91 | #912 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 63 | #1,138 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 59 | #1,113 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 39 | #1,289 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 68 | #943 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 65 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 54 | #1,074 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 56 | #984 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 65 | #893 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 70 | #837 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 69 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1937 | 65 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1936 | 72 | #799 | 0.07 |
| 1935 | 77 | #773 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 55 | #937 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 55 | #921 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 66 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 52 | #969 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 73 | #838 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 48 | #1,062 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 51 | #1,060 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 60 | #987 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 68 | #910 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 61 | #959 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 60 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 58 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 66 | #905 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 69 | #891 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 61 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 54 | #983 | 0.05 |
| 1918 | 59 | #935 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 50 | #997 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 55 | #927 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 57 | #871 | 0.06 |
| 1914 | 44 | #887 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,526 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 24 | #1,075 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,166 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 19 | #1,028 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,364 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,434 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,805 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,204 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,413 | 0.03 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,646 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,308 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,212 | 0.04 |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,061 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Venita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Venita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Venita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Venita, and how old are they?
3,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 60% of the 5,708 Americans ever recorded as Venita. The median Venita alive today is 65 years old; half are between 56 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 3,594 people named Venita (3,587 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,799 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 325 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,830 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 895 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 287 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 36 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 24 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Venita born?
The states with the most babies named Venita are Texas, Illinois and Missouri, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 575 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 339 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 304 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Ohio | 173 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 160 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arkansas | 114 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Oklahoma | 109 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 102 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Kansas | 89 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 78 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Venita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Venita is most over-represented in Missouri: since 1910 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Venita with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,727 babies since 1880, Venita is the most given (65% 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 Venita
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 Venita and names like it
- Compare Venita and VenetiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sVenita peaked in 1960.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Venita since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Venita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Venita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.