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Venus
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Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
Latin venus = 'charm', 'love', 'sexual love' [1] [2]
Related Names
| Venus | ♀ |   |
|
See also Venera
Matronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Venusarson |
|
Female
| Venusardóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Venus |
| Genitive: | Venus' |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Venus |
| Genitive: | Venuksen |
| Partitive: | Venusta |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Venus |
| Accusative: | Venus |
| Dative: | Venus |
| Genitive: | Venusar |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Venus |
| Genitive: | Venus' |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Venus |
| Genitive: | Venus' / Venus |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Mythology
- Venus is the name of the Roman goddess of love. The second planet from the sun is so named becaus Venus was the Roman goddess who corresponds to the Greek Aphrodite, the latter being the name given it by Aristotle. The planet was originally wrongly identified by the Greeks as a 'Morning Star' and an 'Evening Star', named respectively Phosphoros = 'light bearer' and Hesperos = 'evening one'. It was Pythagoras who proposed that the two 'stars' were actually one and the same celestial body. The name of the goddess of love is very fitting for the planet that is the brightest in the sky and that has long been regarded as the most beautiful. [1]
Trivia
- Venus is also used as an Icelandic horse name
Statistics
Name Count per Country (What's this?)
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[4] |
|
105 | 145 | 101 | 140 | 4 | 5 |
| Denmark[5] |
  |
44 | n.a. |
44 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Finland[6] |
|
n.a. |
45 | n.a. |
45 | 0 | 0 |
| Iceland[7] |
  |
2 | 4 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[8] |
|
39 | n.a. |
39 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Greenland[9] |
  |
0 | 0 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| #: count of main first name only | |||||||
| &: count of both main and additional first names | |||||||
| Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Venus.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/