Venture
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- VEN-cher
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Venture is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “daring undertaking”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Venture mean?
English: English word name
“daring undertaking”
Is Venture a girl's or a boy's name?
Venture is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Venture in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,239among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Venture, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2024, with 17 boys. It first appears in the records in 2012.
Half of all the boys named Venture in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Venture in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,439 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,870 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 6 | #10,797 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,136 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
Names like Venture
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Truce Major Moses Ambrose Prince Suede Amos Fletcher Palmer Sincere Royal Chozen
Names related to Venture
More English names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Venture: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/venture, updated 20 October 2026.