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Venda

Girls' name

Brother

Venda has been given to 152 babies in the U.S. since 1920. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1959, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Venda, 1971

1 in 686,000

Venda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Venda: meaning, origin, and history

Brother

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Venda means

Venda means “brother”, associated with vend.

Origin, language, and formation

Venda is used in Czech and Estonian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vendula.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 152 girls were recorded with the name Venda between 1920 and 1971. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1959; its best national rank was #3,233 in 1943.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Venda?

Venda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1971, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1971
1 in 686,000
5 of 3,432,187 births
Among girls only
1 in 333,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1971
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
475,803 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Venda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1971 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 475,803 children born in 1971 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Venda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vendas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Venda was born before 1953 — so the typical Venda is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
45.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
99
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Choose a decade

1950s — 45.4% of all recorded uses (69).

Is Venda rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1959 (11)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,233
1943

Spellings of Venda

Venda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 36.1% against Venda's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Venda around the world

Where Venda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1925–1933
    #949
    in 1933
  • South Australia
    1953–1953
    #449
    in 1953

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Venda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,233
1943
Peak year
1959
11 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
1971
All-time count
152
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Venda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Venda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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