girls:
9.7k births since 1887
#1618 (72nd percentile)
boys:
96 births since 1915
#4490 (2nd percentile)
overall:
9.8k births since 1887
#2698 (65th percentile)
The name Venus is the #2,698 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,834 recorded births since 1887. This represents the 65.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,618 (71.7% percentile) for all time with 9,738 births since 1887. For boys, it ranks #4,490 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 96 births since 1915.
Venus first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1887 (1887 for girls and 1915 for boys).
The name Venus has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Venus reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 34.3% percentile (ranked #504) with 142 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 144 births per million (ranked 28.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Venus ranks #802 for girls (15.3% percentile) with 86 births per million, which is 59.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Venus reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #531) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.7% 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 "Venus".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Venus. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Venus is pronounced as VEE-nuhs, which has 2 syllables.
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