Given name & surname · also Spanish
Venancio
“hunter”
Venancio is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Latin. It is used in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Tagalog, and 1 other language.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Venancio comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1919. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Venancio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 521
- 521 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 10 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 2003. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,971 as a first name in 2020; 1,006 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Venancio’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Venancio has a conventional equivalent in the Catalan form VENANCI. In Spanish usage, Venancio has a conventional equivalent in the Catalan form Venanç. In Spanish usage, Venancio has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Wenanty.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Venancio
- Venancio FloresUruguayan politician (1808-1868)
- Venancio RamosUruguayan footballerborn 1959
- Venancio PérezSpanish footballer (1921-1994)
- Venancio BartibásUruguayan association football player (1906-1978)
- Venancio VallmitjanaSpanish sculptor (1830-1919)
- Venantius of SalonaSaint and bishop300–257
- Venancio JoséSpanish athletics competitorborn 1976
- Benjie ParasFilipino basketball player, actor and comedianborn 1968
- Venancio González y FernándezSpanish politician (1831-1897)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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