Venetta
Venetta Lee Fields is an American-Australian singer, musical theatre actress, and vocal coach. She began her career singing in church and local gospel groups in Buffalo, New York, before gaining prominence in the 1960s as an Ikette with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue.
Meaning & Origin of Venetta
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Venetta Lee Fields is an American-Australian singer, musical theatre actress, and vocal coach. She began her career singing in church and local gospel groups in Buffalo, New York, before gaining prominence in the 1960s as an Ikette with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue.
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The Story of Venetta
Venetta first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1904, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1954: 28 births, good for #1,987 nationwide. About 20% of every Venetta on record arrived during the 1950s, its defining decade. Venetta last appeared in the published SSA data in 1986, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 995 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1900s to the 2020s.
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About the name Venetta
Venetta is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1904 and has accumulated 995 births in the dataset. Venetta's peak popularity came in 1954 when it ranked #1,987. Use the chart and map above to compare Venetta's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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