girls:
2.9k births since 1895
#3229 (43rd percentile)
boys:
266 births since 1916
#4320 (6th percentile)
overall:
3.1k births since 1895
#4849 (37th percentile)
The name Venice is the #4,849 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,150 recorded births since 1895. This represents the 37.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,229 (43.5% percentile) for all time with 2,884 births since 1895. For boys, it ranks #4,320 (5.7% percentile) for all time with 266 births since 1916.
Venice first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1895 (1895 for girls and 1916 for boys). Birth data for Venice is available in 128 out of the 129 years between 1895 and 2023 (128 years for girls and 38 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Venice has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 91.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Venice reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 9.6% percentile (ranked #547) with 49 births per million. The name was most common in 1921, with 49 births per million (ranked 9.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Venice ranks #917 for girls (3.2% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 40.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Venice reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #533) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Venice".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Venice. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.5% confident that Venice is pronounced as VEH-nihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VEH-nuhs, at 27.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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