Venice
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 56 babies a year in the US.
Venice by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Venice. In the US, 56 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 63 babies in 1921, making it a 1920s name.
What we can tell you about Venice
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Names that come from Venice
Forms of Venice in other languages, names built from it, and names that mean a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Venice. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Venice
Names that are said the same way as Venice, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Venusroman goddess of love and beauty115 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Venice
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