Venus
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Calvados, the name of which is of uncertain origin. The surname in this spelling is now found principally in NE England
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vinəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Venus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 4.1K
- USUnited States1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 360 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈47,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Calvados, the name of which is of uncertain origin. The surname in this spelling is now found principally in NE England.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Venus is read(measured from records)
Venus is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English64%
Calvados, the name of which is of uncertain origin. The surname in this spelling is now found principally in NE England.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
The second planet in the Solar system, named for the goddess.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Roman goddess of love; planet
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Roman goddess of beauty and love
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Spanish17%
Venus (planet)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Venus 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Venus | 27 |
| PH Philippines | #908 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Venus | 101 |
| US United States | — | 8,172 | 1 in 41K | 8K | Venus | 360 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Venus | 9 |
| HK Hong Kong | #216 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Venus | 44 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Venus | 45 |
| GY Guyana | — | 106 | 1 in 7.1K | 106 | — | 2 |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Venus is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, translation of Morgenstern
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Venus Xtravaganzab. 1965USAmerican performer, escort, and dancer (1965–1988)
- Venus Terzob. 1967CACanadian actress
- Venus Lacyb. 1967USAmerican basketball player (born 1967)
- Venus DeMilob. 1977USAmerican actress
- Venus Williamsb. 1980USAmerican tennis player (born 1980)
- Venus Rajb. 1988USFilipino model
- Venus Luxb. 1990USAmerican pornographic actress
- Venus Wongb. 1992CNHong Kong actress
- Venus Palermob. 1997CHSwiss rapper and YouTube personality
- Venus Lamb. 2000USHong Kong female artist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 86 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8K | #2,832 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 183 | #2,832 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 106 | #488 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 96 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Venus mean, and where does it come from?
- Calvados, the name of which is of uncertain origin. The surname in this spelling is now found principally in NE England. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- Is Venus a male or female name?
- Venus is a female 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.
- What are other forms of the name Venus?
- In the etymology graph, Venera and Venuše are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Venus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Venus in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled venus.
- How common is the name Venus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,172 people named Venus in 2020, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
- How common is Venus compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Venus is the 216th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Venus?
- A machine transcription gives /vinəs/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/venusThe 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, “Venus” — the 216th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.