Venda
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Venda: people of South Africa and Zimbabwe; also their language
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bẽdɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Venda is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Venda: people of South Africa and Zimbabwe; also their language
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Venda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 160 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 158 | — | 2 |
| IN India | — | 32 | — | 13 |
| EE Estonia | — | 24 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 13 | — | — |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Venda 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 Portuguese, sale
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Portuguese, sale (instance of selling something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, lang., people, Africa; independent
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, homeland, S. Africa
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, A former self-governing Black African homeland in South Africa.
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)
- Mihkel Vendab. 1884EEEstonian police officer (1884-1958)
- Venda Sõelseppb. 1923EEEstonian writer (1923-2006)
- Venda Viritb. 1923EEEstonian teacher and gardener (1923-1992)
- Venda Tammannb. 1932EEEstonian accordionist and music pedagogue (1932-2010)
- António Manuel Vendab. 1968PTPortuguese 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)
Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 158 | #42,763 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 24 | #1,375 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1959 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1962 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1960 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1943 | 10 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #42,763 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1954 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1955 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1951 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1952 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1940 | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Venda mean, and where does it come from?
- Venda: people of South Africa and Zimbabwe; also their language Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Venda?
- A machine transcription gives /bẽdɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Venda have the most bearers?
- Venda is most frequently recorded in Brazil.
What do you want to know about Venda?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vendaThe 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, “Venda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.