Venables: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Search old registers for Venables and you will soon meet Venable too. In origin, the name means “Place name”.

Spelling and variants

The extra ending in Venables is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Venable's family. Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms.

Venables by the numbers

The 2010 US Census counted 569 people named Venables, ranking it number 38,801 among American surnames.

Family crest and blazon

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