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Venera

Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Venera has been given to 122 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1918, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Venera, 1953

1 in 550,000

Venera 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Venera: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Venera means

Venera has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Venera

A separate documented entry treats Venera as a form of Venus. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Venera as a short form of Veneranda. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Venera is used in Albanian and Italian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 122 girls were recorded with the name Venera between 1913 and 1953. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1918; its best national rank was #2,804 in 1918.

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 Venera?

Venera had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1953, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1953
1 in 550,000
7 of 3,852,460 births
Among girls only
1 in 269,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1953
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
381,476 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Venera 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 1953 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 381,476 children born in 1953 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Venera. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Veneras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Venera was born before 1920 — so the typical Venera is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
46.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 46.7% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Venera 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 1918 (12)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,804
1918

Spellings of Venera

Venera is not the most common spelling — Vera is, with 35.4% against Venera's 0.03%.

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.

Where Venera is used

Across 1910–2025, Venera was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,042,200 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Venera has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Venera around the world

Where Venera 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.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2006
    #5,061
    in 2006
  • France
    2010–2010
    #6,047
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1963–1965
    #674
    in 1965

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Venera 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
#2,804
1918
Peak year
1918
12 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1953
All-time count
122
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Venera

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

VennelaVenbaEsteraAbeeraSaveraVenturaVenidaVenolaAveeraAleeraVenisaVenedaAmieraVeneziaVenoraVenissaRivieraKameraEmeraVenesaVendaVennaVeneshaNeera

Sibling names for Venera

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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