Venora — girls' name
266 babies named Venora in U.S. Social Security records since 1906, with the highest year being 1920. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
33% of everyone ever named Venora was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Venora in 1920 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Venora
The Social Security Administration has registered 266 babies named Venora between 1906 and 2020, spanning 115 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Venora currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Venora performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 88 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Venora shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Venora in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Venora 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.
Venora at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Venora popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1906
- Peak year (1920)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 115 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
266 total births across 115 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1920 with 17 births in a single year.
Venora by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 88 births that decade — 33% of Venora's all-time total
Venora decade highlights
- Peak decade 88 births
- Runner-up 52 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Venora's strongest decade
88 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 33% of all-time use.
Venora by state
Where Venora concentrates geographically — total births since 1906
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 15 | 5.6% |
15 of 266 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 5.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 5.6% 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, 1906–2020 (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.