Venus
Just 25 Poles carry it, and records show none given to a child since 2000. A Latin name from the goddess of love, so it reads as "love, beauty" at root.
Venus Pronunciation
What Venus means
Where Venus comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Venus comes straight from Latin. The word venus meant love, charm, and desire before it ever named a person. Romans gave the same word to their goddess of love. The planet borrowed the name too. Philologists trace it further back, to an old root meaning "to strive after," the source that also sits behind English venerate and venereal.
Venus almost never lands on a Polish class register. It has no diminutive and no name-day in the calendar. A child called Venus at the urząd receives the whole Latin word, unshortened and unsoftened.
That keeps the meaning close to the surface. In Latin the sense leaned toward desire as much as toward tender affection. Venus reads as love, in the plainest reading the word ever held.
How many people are named Venus
1 in 1127192 women in Poland is named Venus. 25 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8662 among female names.
Venus as a middle name
Venus is a first name for 25 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 74/26 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2665th, between Uyen (9) and Viera (9).
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#2663 Tzipora9
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#2664 Uyen9
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#2665 Venus9
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#2666 Viera9
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#2667 Vivek9