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Ventura
Portuguese, Spanish, Italian: from a medieval personal name, a short form of
Bonaventura
or
Buenaventura
, meaning "good fortune", or, in the case of the Italian name, a nickname from
ventura
"fortune", "luck".
Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press, 2003.