Venal
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: venous
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/benal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Venal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 499K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 752K
- BRBrazil1 in 6.8M
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 499K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)venal, venous (pertaining to veins)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Venal is read
(measured from records)Venal is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Spanish45%
venous
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English36%
Venous; pertaining to veins.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese6.8%
venal, venous (pertaining to veins)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Venal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 752K | — | Venal | 13 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 499K | — | Venal | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 31 | 1 in 6.8M | 31 | Venal | 9 |
| US United States | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 13M | — | Venal | 10 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | Venal | 4 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)Venal is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, venal, venous
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, VENÁL, -Ă, venali, -e, adj. (Livr.) Care este lipsit de scrupule, care face orice lucru (reprobabil) pentru bani.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 31 | #145,687 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Venal come from?
- venal, venous (pertaining to veins) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Venal?
- In the etymology graph, Veia is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Venal?
- A machine transcription gives /benal/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Venal mean?
- In Spanish, venous
- In which country does Venal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 145 people named Venal in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled venal.
- How common is the name Venal?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 31 people named Venal, about 1 in 6.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Venal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/venalThe 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, “Venal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.