How common is the surname Venters?

1,585 people in the United States had the surname Venters in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 194,792 Americans. It ranked 17,699th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Venters getting more or less common?

More common. 1,528 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,585 in 2010, up 3.7%.

The surname Venters

An English nickname surname, carried by 1,585 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex V536

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Venters is more common than 89.1% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Middle English aventurous (“bold, venturesome”), a nickname for a daring person.

Venters is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,585 people named Venters in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 194,792 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,528.

#17,699

rank among US surnames

1,585

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+3.7%

change since 2000 (was #17,128)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,691	Pangburn	1,586	194,669
#17,699	Orwig	1,585	194,792

Who is named Venters

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

69% of people named Venters identified as white (not Hispanic), 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 69%
Black (not Hispanic) 26%
Two or more races 2.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Ventress

Surnames that sound like Venters

Venters has the Soundex code V536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V536.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Venters come from?: From Middle English aventurous (“bold, venturesome”), a nickname for a daring person.
How common is the surname Venters?: 1,585 people in the United States had the surname Venters in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 194,792 Americans. It ranked 17,699th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Venters?: In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Venters identified as white (not Hispanic), and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Venters?: Venters is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Is the surname Venters getting more or less common?: More common. 1,528 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,585 in 2010, up 3.7%.
What are other spellings of Venters?: Ventress.