Given name & surname
Venus
“love”
Venus is a feminine given name from Latin. It is used in English, Norwegian Bokmål, Tagalog, Cebuano, and 1 other language.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
In mythological stories, Venus is associated with the goddess of love and beauty.
Venus through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10,057
- 101 boys · 9,956 girls
- Most popular year
- 1959
- 295 babies
- 2025
- 96
- #2,001 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +22%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 96 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 2,001 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 20.0% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 295 in 1959. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (16). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 8,172 as a first name in 2020; 750 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.
Venus’s family of names
In Catalan usage, Venus as a surname has a diminutive in VENDRELL. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Venus shares a linguistic root with the French form Vénus. Venus has a related form in Venis.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Venus has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Venisvariant
- Venusslikely variant
- Vennuslikely variant
- Vendrelldiminutive · Catalan
- Venusiavariant
- Venusinavariant
- Venusavariant
- Vynysvariant
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Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Venus
- Venus WilliamsAmerican tennis player (born 1980)
- Venus RajFilipino modelborn 1988
- Venus LacyAmerican basketball player (born 1967)
- Venus TerzoCanadian actressborn 1967
- Venus AngelicSwiss rapper and YouTube personalityborn 1997
- Venus XtravaganzaAmerican performer, escort, and dancer (1965–1988)
- Venus WongHong Kong actressborn 1992
- Venus RameyAmerican model, Miss America 1944, and political1924–2017
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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