Last Name VENUS

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Meaning Local: Of Venice. It may be added that Venus, representing the goddess of love, became a baptismal name, but far too late to have any influence upon surnames. By Archbishop Peckham's law, the minister could have refused to baptize either of the Venus like names. 'The minister shall take care not to permit wanton names, which being pronounced do sound to lasciviousness, to be given to children baptized, especially female sex; and if otherwise it be done, the same shall be changed by the bishop at confirmation.'
Origin English, Spanish, Dutch, Irish, Creole, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank 31,426 (2000 US census) 48,818 (1990 US census)
Count 697 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 78.19%, or 545 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 11.05%, or 77 total occurrences, as black,
  • 6.03%, or 42 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • undisclosed % as two or more races, and
  • 3.01%, or 21 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

 How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

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