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How popular is “Venus” in the USA?

Number of people named “Venus” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Venus” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Venus” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Venus” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Venus” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Venus” by birth year

This chart shows how “Venus” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1887 5 0.000020211 5 100%
1888 7 0.000023374 7 100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 100%
1890 7 0.000023225 7 100%
1891 8 0.000027906 8 100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 100%
1893 6 0.000018449 6 100%
1894 8 0.00002362 8 100%
1895 15 0.000042733 15 100%
1896 13 0.000036365 13 100%
1897 14 0.000040351 14 100%
1898 11 0.000028837 11 100%
1899 9 0.00002653 9 100%
1900 15 0.000033314 15 100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 100%
1902 20 0.000051715 20 100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 100%
1904 9 0.000022306 9 100%
1905 13 0.000030666 13 100%
1906 9 0.000021006 9 100%
1907 13 0.000027934 13 100%
1908 11 0.000022511 11 100%
1909 13 0.000025429 13 100%
1910 15 0.000025393 15 100%
1911 17 0.000026386 17 100%
1912 24 0.00002429 24 100%
1913 24 0.000021106 24 100%
1914 20 0.000014121 20 100%
1915 43 0.000023466 37 6 72%
1916 47 0.000024297 40 7 70%
1917 29 0.000014451 29 100%
1918 42 0.000019345 36 6 71%
1919 32 0.000015164 32 100%
1920 35 0.000015469 26 9 49%
1921 47 0.000020133 47 100%
1922 39 0.000017037 39 100%
1923 43 0.000018676 34 9 58%
1924 36 0.000015116 36 100%
1925 31 0.000013286 31 100%
1926 26 0.000011325 26 100%
1927 28 0.000012072 28 100%
1928 34 0.000015038 34 100%
1929 18 0.000008211 18 100%
1930 27 0.000012144 27 100%
1931 29 0.000013781 24 5 66%
1932 24 0.000011367 19 5 58%
1933 21 0.000010503 21 100%
1934 22 0.000010593 16 6 45%
1935 14 0.000006699 14 100%
1936 16 0.000007701 16 100%
1937 13 0.000006101 13 100%
1938 12 0.000005424 12 100%
1939 13 0.0000059 13 100%
1940 16 0.000006948 16 100%
1941 11 0.000004515 11 100%
1942 11 0.000004027 11 100%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 100%
1944 15 0.000005576 15 100%
1945 13 0.0000049 13 100%
1946 21 0.000006572 21 100%
1947 25 0.00000694 25 100%
1948 20 0.000005793 20 100%
1949 43 0.000012339 43 100%
1950 46 0.00001313 46 100%
1951 35 0.000009501 35 100%
1952 44 0.000011585 44 100%
1953 37 0.000009601 37 100%
1954 61 0.000015324 61 100%
1955 98 0.000024408 98 100%
1956 112 0.000027164 112 100%
1957 103 0.000024511 103 100%
1958 106 0.000025642 106 100%
1959 295 0.000070948 295 100%
1960 180 0.000043334 180 100%
1961 211 0.000050938 203 8 92%
1962 168 0.000041632 168 100%
1963 201 0.000050781 201 100%
1964 178 0.000045787 173 5 94%
1965 167 0.000046063 167 100%
1966 171 0.000049199 171 100%
1967 208 0.000061268 208 100%
1968 151 0.000044696 151 100%
1969 145 0.000041723 145 100%
1970 188 0.000052128 188 100%
1971 225 0.000065553 225 100%
1972 227 0.000072224 227 100%
1973 224 0.000074249 224 100%
1974 217 0.000071382 212 5 95%
1975 210 0.00006955 210 100%
1976 218 0.000071845 218 100%
1977 208 0.000065481 208 100%
1978 219 0.000069001 219 100%
1979 190 0.000057109 185 5 95%
1980 195 0.000056612 188 7 93%
1981 151 0.00004365 151 100%
1982 164 0.000046751 156 8 90%
1983 95 0.00002743 95 100%
1984 88 0.000025224 88 100%
1985 79 0.000022134 79 100%
1986 69 0.000019398 69 100%
1987 67 0.000018582 67 100%
1988 46 0.000012449 46 100%
1989 76 0.000019769 76 100%
1990 41 0.000010373 41 100%
1991 45 0.000011552 45 100%
1992 46 0.000011975 46 100%
1993 46 0.000012201 46 100%
1994 52 0.000013987 52 100%
1995 39 0.000010649 39 100%
1996 34 0.000009322 34 100%
1997 70 0.000019306 70 100%
1998 78 0.000021206 78 100%
1999 60 0.000016243 60 100%
2000 85 0.000022487 85 100%
2001 75 0.000020035 75 100%
2002 84 0.00002247 84 100%
2003 55 0.000014465 55 100%
2004 50 0.000013086 50 100%
2005 73 0.000018986 73 100%
2006 53 0.000013397 53 100%
2007 66 0.00001651 66 100%
2008 114 0.000029003 114 100%
2009 93 0.000024344 93 100%
2010 87 0.000023541 87 100%
2011 66 0.000018044 66 100%
2012 77 0.000021053 77 100%
2013 75 0.000020572 75 100%
2014 60 0.000016188 60 100%
2015 71 0.000019184 71 100%
2016 83 0.000022624 83 100%
2017 116 0.000032437 116 100%
2018 119 0.000033846 119 100%
2019 112 0.000032268 112 100%
2020 134 0.000040113 134 100%
2021 137 0.000040437 137 100%
2022 182 0.000053796 177 5 95%
2023 150 0.000045301 150 100%
2024 122 0.000036653 117 5 92%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Venus:

  1. Venton
  2. Ventrell
  3. Ventura
  4. Venture
  5. Ventus
  6. Venus (this page)
  7. Venya
  8. Veo
  9. Veola
  10. Veolia
  11. Veon