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'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ventura is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 1.5K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈77,000 people, est.
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'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 604 | — | 4 |
| US United States | 39,580 | 1 in 8.4K | 41K | Ventura- | 338 |
| ES Spain | 14,950 | 1 in 3.3K | 15K | Ventura | 169 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Vëntürä | 51 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 2K | — | 42 |
| PT Portugal | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | — | 1 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Ventura | 34 |
| UY Uruguay | 1,105 | 1 in 3.1K | 1.1K | — | 37 |
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); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)
- Ventura Rodríguezb. 1717ESSpanish architect
- Lino Venturab. 1919ITItalian actor
- José Ramón Machado Venturab. 1930CUCuban politician
- Gian Piero Venturab. 1948ITItalian football player and manager
- Joaquín Oristrellb. 1953ESnot in their usual nameSpanish film director and screenwriter (born 1953)
- Simona Venturab. 1965ITItalian television presenter (born 1965)
- Yolanda Venturab. 1968ESSpanish actress
- Santiago Venturab. 1980ESSpanish tennis player
- André Venturab. 1983PTPortuguese politician and Member of Parliament for the Lisbon District of Portugal and State Councillor of Portugal
- 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)
Attested in 69 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 41K | #819 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 40K | #877 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 27K | #1,196 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 15K | #357 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15K | #357 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.1K | — |
Reference works 10
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 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].
- In which country does Ventura have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 77 thousand people named Ventura in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold.
- 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
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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”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.