Given name & surname
Ventura
“having good fortune”
Ventura is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “having good fortune.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “having good fortune.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1908. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ventura through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,532
- 1,301 boys · 231 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 33 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #17,108 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −43%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 17,108 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1934. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,457 as a first name in 2020; 41,204 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ventura’s family of names
In Italian usage, Ventura as a surname has a diminutive in VENTURELLA. Ventura has a related form in Venturah. Ventura has a related form in Venturra.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ventura
- Ventura AlvaradoAmerican soccer playerborn 1992
- Ventura RodríguezSpanish architect1717–1785
- Ventura Ruiz AguileraSpanish poet (1820–1881)
- Ventura de la VegaArgentine playwright and writer (1807-1865)
- Ventura SalimbeniItalian painter (1568-1613)
- Ventura DíazSpanish cyclistborn 1937
- Ventura Álvarez SalaSpanish painter (1869–1919)
- Ventura Caro(1742-1809)1731–1808
- Ventura García CalderónPeruvian writer and diplomat (1886-1959)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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