The surname Venables
A Norman place surname, carried by 569 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex V514
Origin
Norman origin
Probably derived from Latin venabulum (“hunting spear”), in the sense of "hunting ground". The surname arrived in England through Norman.
Venables is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 128 Norman surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 569 people named Venables in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 542,611 Americans. That is up 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 553.
Who is named Venables
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Venables identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.1% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Two or more races 1.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Venables
Venables has the Soundex code V514, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V514.
Other Norman surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Venables come from?
- Probably derived from Latin venabulum (“hunting spear”), in the sense of "hunting ground". The surname arrived in England through Norman.
- How common is the surname Venables?
- 569 people in the United States had the surname Venables in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 542,611 Americans. It ranked 38,801st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Venables?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Venables identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.1% as two or more races.
- What type of surname is Venables?
- Venables is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Venables getting more or less common?
- More common. 553 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 569 in 2010, up 2.9%.