Ventre

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: ME aventure “chance, hazard”, same sense as Venters and Ventura; first attested William A ventur 1279 RH (Hu)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈvɛntɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ventre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 82K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 12K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 99K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

828 people, 2010

Sources
45 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

ME aventure “chance, hazard”, same sense as Venters and Ventura; first attested William A ventur 1279 RH (Hu)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Ventre is read(measured from records)

Ventre is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English45%

    ME aventure “chance, hazard”, same sense as Venters and Ventura; first attested William A ventur 1279 RH (Hu)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

    Obsolete form of venture (“to hazard, risk”).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish22%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Ventre in Spanish.

  • French17%

    belly

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    from OF ventre belly (L venter).

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • Italian6.5%

    abdomen, midriff, belly, stomach

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ventre counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ventre is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8281 in 402K879Ventre45
AR Argentina5521 in 82K552Ventre42
UY Uruguay2871 in 12K287Ventre15
BR Brazil2041 in 1M204Ventre43
CH Switzerland851 in 99K85—5
BE Belgium131 in 902K13——

828 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ventre is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Ventré

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ventré

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Ventrè

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ventre is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, womb

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1920194019601980Mariele Ventre, b. 1939Riccardo Ventre, b. 1944André-Michel Ventre, b. 1949Graziano Ventre, b. 1954Giorgio Ventre, b. 1960Carlo Ventre, b. 1969Marco Ventre, b. 1975

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Ventre,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Ventre
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000879#26,163
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020850#29,580
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010828#28,746
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—552—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—287—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—204#36,218
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202485#12,519
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200813#61,716
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ventre mean, and where does it come from?
ME aventure “chance, hazard”, same sense as Venters and Ventura; first attested William A ventur 1279 RH (Hu) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
How do you pronounce Ventre?
A machine transcription gives /ˈvɛntɝ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Ventre have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 828 people named Ventre, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ventre.
Where is Ventre most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ventre is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ventre?
In the United States, the national register counted 828 people named Ventre in 2010, about 1 in 402 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ventre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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