Entry № 11221 · Latin origin

Venus Venus — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VEE-nuss /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Roman goddess of love (Venus Williams, tennis champion)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "roman goddess of love (venus williams, tennis champion)".

Venus is the Latin name of the Roman goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and victory — counterpart of the Greek Aphrodite. The morning and evening star — the second planet from the sun — is named for her; she is also the namesake of Friday in Romance languages (venerdì, vendredi). Successfully campaigned in 2007 to win Wimbledon's equal prize money for women — concluded in her Times op-ed "Wimbledon Has Sent Me a Message: I'm Only a Second-Class Champion."

Subject of Will Smith's King Richard (2021 film).

Goddess of love.

The name in its native script.

Venus
Transliteration
Venus
Pronunciation
/ ˈviː.nəs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Venus stands.

Venus does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Venuss before her.

Real people
Venus Williams
American tennis champion.
born 1980
In fiction
Venus
Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.
1485

Names connected to Venus.

The number behind Venus.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Venus reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.