Ventura
loc · Latin script
Meaning: From the medieval Italian, Spanish and Portuguese personal name Ventura, a shortened form of Bonaventura or Buenaventura, literally 'good luck' (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 32 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Ventura is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 980(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 1.5Kfew records
- MXMexico≈1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 980 (inferred from the name graph)
≈76,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ventura- in US United States and Vëntürä in GT Guatemala.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From the medieval Italian, Spanish and Portuguese personal name Ventura, a shortened form of Bonaventura or Buenaventura, literally 'good luck'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ventura is found
(measured from records)Ventura 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 1.5K | Ventura | 171 |
| BR Brazil | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 604 | — | 4 |
| US United States | 39,580 | 1 in 8.4K | 41K | Ventura- | 338 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Vëntürä | 51 |
| ES Spain | 14,950 | 1 in 3.3K | 15K | Ventura | 169 |
| PT Portugal | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 980 | listed | — | 1 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Ventura | 34 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — Nomes (census name API). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Ventura is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Italian Ventura, from a word meaning ‘fortune, luck’
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, the adventurer, venturesome; first attested John le Ventrer 1273 RH (Nt)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Italian, Vedi Bonaventura.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
luck, mazal
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Romanian, , prin infl. gr.-mod. din Bonaventura, it. bund intimplare". 1. Ventura (Arh ; Cat gr I). 2. Vintura, N. scris §i Ventura, grec (Rile 27 ; Tec II ; RI XII 245). 3. Vdntor, Stan din satul Sirbi 1622 (BCI V 185) Verna v. Varnava I 3 §iBernard I 2 q. Vernadea v. B e r n a r d 12 g. Veroana v. V erenica 1. Veron, -eseu v. Veronica 4.
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
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)- Lino Venturab. 1919ITItalian actor
- Yolanda Venturab. 1968ESSpanish actress
- Cassieb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, dancer, actress, and model (born 1986)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)69 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 32 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ventura mean, and where does it come from?
- From the medieval Italian, Spanish and Portuguese personal name Ventura, a shortened form of Bonaventura or Buenaventura, literally 'good luck'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ventura?
- Mondonomo estimates about 76 thousand people named Ventura in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ventura. After it come Brazil, United States, Guatemala and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ventura?
- In the United States, the national register counted 39,580 people named Ventura in 2010, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/venturaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ventura” — ranked 240th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.