Venáncio
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Venáncio is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish, from Latin venatium or venator (“hunter”).
- VEVenezuela1 in 9K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 11K
- ESSpain1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.0K (inferred from the name graph)
4,659 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Venancio in US United States, VE Venezuela, ES Spain and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Spanish, from Latin venatium or venator (“hunter”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Venáncio 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 | — | 4,659 | 1 in 45K | 6.2K | — | 2 |
| VE Venezuela | #919 | 3,191 | 1 in 9K | 3.2K | Venancio | 20 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,490 | 1 in 20K | 2.7K | Venancio | 85 |
| US United States | — | 1,971 | 1 in 169K | 2K | Venancio | 146 |
| UY Uruguay | #315 | 315 | 1 in 11K | 315 | Venancio | 21 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 117 | 1 in 44K | 117 | — | 9 |
4,659 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Venáncio mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish, from Latin venatium or venator (“hunter”). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Venáncio a male or female name?
- Venáncio is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Venáncio have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Venáncio, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Venáncio most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Venáncio is densest in Venezuela — about 1 in 9.0 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Venáncio?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,659 people named Venáncio in 2022, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
- How common is Venáncio compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Venáncio is the 315th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ven%C3%A1ncioThe 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
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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, “Venáncio” — the 315th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.