Throughout the world, Venant (Venant 
, Венан 
) is quite a common primarily masculine, but scarcely female forename. The first name Venant is characteristic of Tanzania, where it is quite a rare boy's name, Luxembourg, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a rare mostly masculine, but uncommonly girly name. In absolute terms, it most frequently occurs in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Cameroon. Likewise, Venant is the last name as well as the forename.