Venne
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname, from a place name or dwelling/landscape feature
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈvɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Venne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Canada than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 310K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 140K
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.
- Canada (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname, from a place name or dwelling/landscape feature.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Venne 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Canada | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Venne | 111 |
| US United States | 1,074 | 1 in 310K | 1.1K | Venne | 203 |
| DE Germany | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Venne | 46 |
| FR France | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 305K | 30 | — | 1 |
| GH Ghana | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Venne | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 79 | 1 in 219K | 79 | Venne | 36 |
| EE Estonia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 140K | 10 | — | 3 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Venne is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, altération de Voine, du nom germanique Wano, dérivé de wan « attente, espérance »
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In Italian, redução popular e coloquial de Bencivenne
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, Toponymischer Familienname aus Siedlungsnamen mit mnd. venne 'Venn, Moor'; im Text als Typ Venne (39 Types/2394 Tokens) belegt.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymischer Familienname: aus mnd. venne, vēn, mnl. vene, veen, mhd. venne „Sumpf, Moor, feuchtes Gelände“; Trägerzahl 2394.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In Swedish, contraction of vet inte (“don't know”), dunno
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Lottie Venneb. 1852GBEnglish actor and singer (1852–1928)
- Joseph Venneb. 1858CACanadian architect (1858–1925)
- Alphonse Venneb. 1875CACanadian architect
- Ludger Venneb. 1891CACanadian architect
- Stéphane Venneb. 1941CACanadian singer-songwriter
- Pierrette Venneb. 1945CACanadian politician
- Carl Venneb. 1946USCrow Nation leader
- Henri Venneb. 1966CA1966- (born 1966)
- Matt Venneb. 1974screenwriter
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 23 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,618 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 981 | #24,007 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 946 | #27,055 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 79 | #22,687 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 13 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Venne mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname, from a place name or dwelling/landscape feature. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Venne?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈvɛn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Venne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Venne in Canada, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled venne.
- How common is the name Venne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,074 people named Venne in 2010, about 1 in 310 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/venneThe 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, “Venne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.