# Venita (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/venita/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,708 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 5,708 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 8 | 10,166 |
| 1991 | 13 | 6,965 |
| 1992 | 6 | 13,278 |
| 1993 | 10 | 8,706 |
| 1994 | 10 | 8,774 |
| 1996 | 8 | 10,528 |
| 1998 | 8 | 11,100 |
| 2000 | 9 | 10,714 |
| 2004 | 8 | 12,721 |
| 2005 | 6 | 16,351 |
| 2012 | 5 | 19,379 |
| 2018 | 6 | 15,561 |
| 2019 | 6 | 15,432 |
| 2021 | 6 | 15,126 |
| 2023 | 6 | 15,059 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 3 | 4,798 |

## People named Venita

- Venita Akpofure, british-Nigerian actress and video vixen

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.