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Venetia

Girls' name

Meaning and deeper origin uncertain

Venetia has been given to 1,276 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1958, with 99 recorded.

Babies named Venetia, 2017

1 in 715,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Venetia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and deeper origin uncertain

Latin

What Venetia means

Venetia is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Venetia is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Venetia is pronounced /vəˈniʃə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,276 girls were recorded with the name Venetia between 1916 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 99 in 1958; its best national rank was #1,057 in 1958.

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 Venetia?

Venetia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Venetia 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 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Venetia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Venetias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Venetia was born before 1960 — so the typical Venetia is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
28.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,076
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1950s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (361).

Is Venetia 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (99)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,057
1958

Spellings of Venetia

Venetia is not the most common spelling — Venessa is, with 23.4% against Venetia's 5.2%.

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 Venetia is used

Across 1910–2025, Venetia was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 386,682 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Louisiana1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8New Jersey1 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. Venetia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Venetia around the world

Where Venetia 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
    1996–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • France
    1990–1990
    #3,719
    in 1990
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Venetia 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,057
1958
Peak year
1958
99 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
1,276
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Venetia

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

VeneciaVeneziaVenettaVeniceVenturaVennieCelestiaCintiaVennaVenetaVennelaShantiaVenessaVenishaVeniseVeniciaVenbaVenesaLatitiaVenitaVenusVenissaLacretiaVenora

Sibling names for Venetia

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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