Venske
surname · Latin script
Meaning: s. Wenzel
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/vɛnsk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Venske is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- SOSomalia≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 153K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 159K
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)
- Record sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Somalia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)s. Wenzel
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world
(measured from records)Venske 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 | — | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Venske | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 762 | 1 in 278K | 762 | — | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Venske | 24 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 238K | listed | Venske | 49 |
| SO Somalia | #686 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Venske | 1 |
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); the deutsche-namenkunde-gottschald-1982 register. 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)- Oswald Venskeb. 1867PLPh.D. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1891
- Frieda Venskeb. 1875CZholocaust victim, b. 1875-11-01
- Henning Venskeb. 1939DEGerman actor
- Regula Venskeb. 1955DEGerman specialist in literature and writer
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 762 | #11,723 |
| DE Germany | Deutsche Namenkunde (Gottschald, 1982) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Venske mean, and where does it come from?
- s. Wenzel Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Venske?
- A machine transcription gives /vɛnsk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Venske have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.1 thousand people named Venske in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled venske.
- How common is the name Venske?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 762 people named Venske, about 1 in 278 thousand residents.
- How common is Venske compared with other names?
- In Somalia, Venske is the 686th most common surname of 1,614 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Venske?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/venskeThe 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, “Venske” — the 686th most common surname in Somalia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.