Ventura
Ventura was last recorded in 2025, when 5 babies were given it; 1,532 Americans have been recorded with it between 1908 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ventura by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ventura mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Ventura is “a male given name”
/vẽˈtu.ɾɐ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ventura?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,805, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1920, the peak
Ventura peaked in 1920, when 33 babies were given it (22 boys, #1,690 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,104 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,530 | 8 | #9,805 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 7 | #10,760 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 10 | #8,005 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 10 | #8,162 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 9 | #8,763 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 8 | #9,626 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 7 | #10,660 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #13,945 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 8 | #9,605 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | under 5 | 6 | #12,182 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 10 | #8,027 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 10 | #8,090 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 9 | #8,942 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 17 | #5,473 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 11 | #7,549 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 10 | #7,958 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 10 | #7,606 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 12 | #6,494 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 12 | #6,231 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 10 | #7,003 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 10 | #6,901 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 17 | #4,552 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 9 | #7,097 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 12 | #5,444 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 17 | #4,043 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,783 | 23 | #3,193 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,330 | 15 | #4,258 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 18 | #3,737 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 19 | #3,489 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,532 | 18 | #3,592 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 17 | #3,617 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,173 | 14 | #4,154 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 15 | #3,793 | |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,215 | 17 | #3,194 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 8 | #5,425 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,767 | 7 | #5,898 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 10 | #4,312 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 12 | #3,684 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,012 | 9 | #4,483 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 9 | #4,570 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 13 | #3,402 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 10 | #4,120 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,913 | 19 | #2,564 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 12 | #3,389 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 10 | #3,826 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #5,553 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #9,028 | 14 | #2,892 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 10 | #3,547 | |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,394 | 13 | #2,849 |
| 1972 | under 5 | 18 | #2,239 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 9 | #3,646 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 11 | #3,061 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 11 | #2,850 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 10 | #2,893 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 13 | #2,341 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 13 | #2,319 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 15 | #2,169 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 12 | #2,538 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,611 | 12 | #2,529 |
| 1962 | under 5 | 21 | #1,801 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 8 | #3,336 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 8 | #3,324 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 11 | #2,650 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 10 | #2,804 | |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,963 | 9 | #3,013 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,847 | 20 | #1,816 |
| 1955 | under 5 | 11 | #2,544 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 11 | #2,583 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 18 | #1,897 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 14 | #2,149 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 14 | #2,129 | |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,652 | 10 | #2,569 |
| 1949 | under 5 | 13 | #2,217 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 13 | #2,212 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 13 | #2,245 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 8 | #2,905 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 21 | #1,492 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 16 | #1,805 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 17 | #1,827 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 9 | #2,703 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 7 | #3,119 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 8 | #2,855 | |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,316 | 23 | #1,435 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,877 | 10 | #2,472 |
| 1936 | under 5 | 5 | #4,019 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 12 | #2,239 | |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,557 | 8 | #2,951 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,386 | 11 | #2,362 |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,040 | 8 | #3,077 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,925 | 19 | #1,687 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,210 | 9 | #3,006 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,658 | 20 | #1,724 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,727 | 22 | #1,642 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,259 | 15 | #2,186 |
| 1926 | under 5 | 14 | #2,294 | |
| 1925 | 8 | #4,006 | 16 | #2,083 |
| 1924 | under 5 | 22 | #1,721 | |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,625 | 16 | #2,115 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,632 | 9 | #3,234 |
| 1921 | under 5 | 12 | #2,618 | |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,085 | 22 | #1,690 |
| 1919 | under 5 | 11 | #2,652 | |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,535 | 8 | #3,356 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,109 | 7 | #3,485 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,409 | 5 | #4,357 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,154 | 5 | #3,728 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,763 | 6 | #1,574 |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,089 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ventura a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,532 Americans recorded as Ventura, 15% are girls and 85% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ventura: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ventura, and how old are they?
An estimated 928 Americans named Ventura and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 28 and 61. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,457 people named Ventura (621 women and girls, 1,836 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 981 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times 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).
Where are babies named Ventura born?
The states with the most babies named Ventura are Texas, California and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 404 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| California | 117 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Ventura is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ventura is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 3.8 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 boys’ 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 Ventura 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,617 babies since 1880, Ventura is the most given (95% 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 Ventura
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 Ventura and names like it
- Compare Ventura and VentureBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sVentura peaked in 1920.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ventura since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Ventura: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Ventura.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ventura alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with VMost given first.