Venel
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vɑ̃ɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Venel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 5.4M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 9.2M
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 9.6M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.4M (inferred from the name graph)
23 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Venel 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.
23 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gabriel François Venelb. 1723FRFrench chemist
- Jean-André Venelb. 1740CHSwiss orthopaedist (1740-1791)
- Jean-Jacques Challet-Venelb. 1811CHmember of the Swiss Federal Council (1811-1893)
- Paul Venelb. 1864FRFrench army officer and colonial governor (1864–1920)
- Aimé Venelb. 1950FRFrench painter and drawer
- Juliette Venelb. 1981FRPh.D. Université Paris-Sud XI - Orsay 2008
- Jean Venel Casseusb. 1982HTHaitian writer
- Ugo VenelFRFrench actor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23 | #177,962 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #172,576 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Venel?
- A machine transcription gives /vɑ̃ɛl/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Venel have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 23 people named Venel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled venel.
- Where is Venel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Venel is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 5.4 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Venel?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 23 people named Venel, about 1 in 9.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Venel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/venelThe 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, “Venel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.