Venetia

Locally spelled Veneto in IT Italy, CH Switzerland, CA Canada, Βενετια in GR Greece and Venetien in NL Netherlands.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Venetia, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Vienna
• Valencia
• Vanna
• Vada
• Siena
• Vanessa
• Valora
• Valeria
• Octavia
• Valentina
• Guinevere
• Valerie

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Venetia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Italy, Panama

  Languages: French, Italian, Spanish

  Also written Veneto, Vénétia, Venétia, Vénëtia, Venetie

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Venétia, Vénétia

• Russian given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia

  Also written Венетия, Венетиа

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Venétia

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Venetia is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, a historical region in northeastern Italy, roughly corresponding to the modern Veneto

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, region, Italy

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• English: of uncertain origin, used occasionally since the late Middle Ages. In form the name coincides with that of the region of northern Italy.

  as a word

• In Latin, Venetia (a region held by the Veneti in antiquity)

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Venetia Stanleyb. 1600British noble (1600-1633)
• Venetia Jamesb. 1861GBBritish society hostess and racehorse breeder
• Venetia Stanleyb. 1887GBsocialite (1887–1948)
• Rosalind Pitt-Riversb. 1907GBnot in their usual nameBritish biochemist (1907–1990)
• Venetia Burneyb. 1918GBBritish schoolteacher, namer of the dwarf planet Pluto
• Venetia Stevensonb. 1938GBBritish actress (1938–2022)
• Venetia Stanley-Smithb. 1950GBEnglish herbalist
• Natalie Venetia Belconb. 1969USAmerican actress
• Georgina V. Longb. 1970AUnot in their usual nameAustralian melanoma oncologist and researcher
• Venetia Deardenb. 1975GBEnglish photographer

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

In which country does Venetia have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 284 people named Venice, more than in any other country we hold.

How common is the name Venetia?

In the United States, the national register counted 284 people named Venice in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.