Ventura surname meaning

Ventura is an Italian, Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese surname from a medieval personal name, a short form of Bonaventura or Buenaventura, “good fortune.” In Italian it can also be a nickname straight from ventura, “fortune” or “luck,” and Jewish Italian families used the same personal-name base. Venturi is a related Italian patronymic or plural form. The Buenaventura given name was popular under Franciscan influence. Parent’s name fits the Bonaventura hypocoristic path that dominates Romance records, and that reading is high confidence.