Names of Venezuela VE

asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) records Maria as the commonest given name in Venezuela; the names that most distinguish Venezuela from the rest of the world are Jose, Carmen and Gonzalez.

Written in Spanish.

Population
29M
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
61K
BBuilt from 1 official register, 60,632 name forms in our corpus, 3 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Venezuela are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Venezuela included.

How names work in Venezuela

Names in Venezuela follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Venezuela

Counts not recorded by the publisher · authority tier 3
asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) — 2,727 given names counted over a population the publisher did not record, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Maria1.1M2
2Carmen390K4
3Ana312K12
4Rosa167K15
5Juana91K50
6Luisa73K37
7Gladys63K63
8Luz61K64
9Nancy54K83
10Petra48K—
11Elizabet48K—
12Elizabeth48K62
13Aura47K99
14Isabel47K43
15Adriana44K86
16Cruz43K—
17Mary42K—
18Maritza42K96
19Angela41K77
20Mercedes40K48

Where the two lists disagree

23 of asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)Across all recordsmaria: 1 → 21. maria2carmen: 2 → 42. carmen4ana: 3 → 12 · ranks lower across all records3. ana12rosa: 4 → 15 · ranks lower across all records4. rosa15juana: 5 → 50 · ranks lower across all records5. juana50luisa: 6 → 37 · ranks lower across all records6. luisa37gladys: 7 → 63 · ranks lower across all records7. gladys63luz: 8 → 64 · ranks lower across all records8. luz64nancy: 9 → 83 · ranks lower across all records9. nancy83petra: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. petranot rankedelizabet: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. elizabetnot rankedelizabeth: 12 → 62 · ranks lower across all records12. elizabeth62aura: 13 → 99 · ranks lower across all records13. aura99isabel: 14 → 43 · ranks lower across all records14. isabel43adriana: 15 → 86 · ranks lower across all records15. adriana86cruz: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. cruznot rankedmary: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. marynot rankedmaritza: 18 → 96 · ranks lower across all records18. maritza96angela: 19 → 77 · ranks lower across all records19. angela77mercedes: 20 → 48 · ranks lower across all records20. mercedes48milagros: 21 → 90 · ranks lower across all records21. milagros90genesis: 22 → 80 · ranks lower across all records22. genesis80olga: 23 → 89 · ranks lower across all records23. olga89jonnathan: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. jonnathannot rankedlilisbeth: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. lilisbethnot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) on the left; every record we hold for Venezuela on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Venezuela

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Venezuela holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

JoseCarmenMariaLuisJesusDelRafaelJosefinaRamonCarlosAntonioCoromotoRosaPedroEnriqueAngelCarolinaManuelGregorioAndreinaJulioMiguelEduardoAlbertoLuisaFranciscoYelitzaArgenisCesarGenesisHectorAlexisOmairaEdgarAuraMercedesMargaritaVictorNelsonDayanaRamonaJorgeJavierLisbethYajairaWilmerPetraJuanaBelkisGladysOscarZulayOswaldo
Sized by how much of the difference between Venezuela's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Josegiven name●
Mariagiven name●
Luisgiven name●
Carmengiven name●
Antoniogiven name●
The best-attested names in Venezuela, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)headline (given)

    asosab (derived from SAIME ID records), Venezuela — unofficial. Counts: not recorded. given. 2,727 forms.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-backfilled registry stub (2026-06-05); verify publisher/URL. 3,159 rows, name_types=['given'], evidence=['count']. source note: saime_id_cards_1896_1996_unofficial

    Last verified 2026-06-05.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Venezuela?
Maria, according to asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996), with 1,061,425 bearers recorded among girls.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Venezuela?
Because they count different people. asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Maria. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Jose. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Venezuela”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/VE (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996).