Venema
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Westfriesisch -ma-Surname: aus -um + Gen.Pl
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈvɛnɪmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Venema is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.5K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 344K
- NONorway1 in 391K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
6,806 people, 2007
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Westfriesisch -ma-Surname: aus -um + Gen.Pl. -a; analogisch auch an andere Namenstypen. Patronymisch/toponymisch, oft mit -s/Fugen-e. 96 Bearer.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Venema 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 6,806 | 1 in 2.5K | 6.8K | Venema | 6 |
| US United States | 966 | 1 in 344K | 966 | Venema | 4 |
| ES Spain | 50 | 1 in 1M | 50 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 27 | 1 in 434K | 27 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 17 | 1 in 600K | 17 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 14 | 1 in 391K | 14 | — | — |
6,806 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Herman Venemab. 1697NLDutch theologian
- Aaltje Venemab. 1904NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Adriaan Venemab. 1941NLDutch writer
- Wietse Zweitze Venemab. 1951NLDutch computer scientist
- Doete Venemab. 1951NLDutch novelist
- Janny Venemab. 1951NLDutch historian
- Jolanda Venemab. 1965NLintellectually handicapped woman who triggered a revolution in the Dutch care for people with a severe intellectual disability (1965-1999)
- Anneke Venemab. 1971NLDutch rower
- Melissa Venemab. 1995NLDutch trumpeter
- Nick Venemab. 1999NLassociation football player
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 6.8K | #104 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 966 | #25,555 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 944 | #27,108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 890 | #25,926 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 50 | #44,952 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 50 | #44,350 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 27 | #39,641 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 17 | #28,255 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #49,785 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Venema?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈvɛnɪmə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Venema mean?
- Recorded meaning: Westfriesisch -ma-Surname: aus -um + Gen.Pl.
- In which country does Venema have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 6.8 thousand people named Venema, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled venema.
- Where is Venema most common?
- Venema is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Venema?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6,806 people named Venema in 2007, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/venemaThe 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, “Venema”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.