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Venus

#2,001 in 2025Girls' name

Evening, evening star, through Venus

Venus has been given to 10,057 babies in the U.S. since 1887. In 2025 it ranked #2,001 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1959, with 295 recorded.

Babies named Venus, 2025

1 in 34,500

Venus over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Venus: meaning, origin, and history

Evening, evening star, through Venus

Latin and English

What Venus means

Venus belongs to the name family reached through Venus → Venus. Its meaning is “evening, evening star”.

Origin, language, and formation

Venus is used in English, Cebuano, Icelandic and Tagalog. Its origins include Latin and English.

Venus comes through Middle English Venus and Latin Venus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Venus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Venus is pronounced /ˈvinəs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,956 girls were recorded with the name Venus between 1887 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 295 in 1959; its best national rank was #570 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,569 in 2020 to #2,001 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,554 in 2015 to #2,001 in 2025.

In the United States, 101 boys were recorded with the name Venus between 1915 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1920; its best national rank was #3,157 in 1923.

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 Venus?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 34,500
96 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,001
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,938 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Venus 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 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,938 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Venus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Venuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Venus was born before 1975 — so the typical Venus is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
21.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,773
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 21.3% of all recorded uses (2,116).

Is Venus 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
−271
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−432
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+553
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.35×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.5%
Peak was 1959 (295)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#570
1959

Spellings of Venus

Venus is the most-used spelling, taking 42.5% of the 23,423 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Venus is used

Across 2016–2025, Venus was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 13,622 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 7,692
  2. 2Florida1 in 7,692
  3. 3New York1 in 10,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 11,111
  5. 5Georgia1 in 16,667
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 20,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 25,000

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.

Venus around the world

Where Venus 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
    1996–2024
    #2,001
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    2021–2021
    #792
    in 2021
  • France
    1906–2025
    #3,404
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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

Notable people named Venus

People whose public names include Venus, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Venus in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Venus. Linked forms have their own page here.

Venere

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Venus by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,001
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 432
Best rank ever
#570
1959
Peak year
1959
295 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,956
Count in 2025
96

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,157
1923
Peak year
1920
9 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
101
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Venus

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

VeniceVenitaVennaVenaVenessaVenbaVeneciaVennieVenetaVenieVeneziaVenetiaVeniaVenettaVeniseVenturaVendaVenesaVenoraVenedaVenidaVennelaVenishaVenera

Names with a curve like Venus

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Venus, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JosetteAletheaEvetteDarcyMelonieSuzannaAnnemarieStarlaColletteRenaeJolynnMelony

Sibling names for Venus

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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