Venetia

Italian place-name

Venetia Origin and Meaning

The name Venetia is a girl's name of Italian origin.

Venetia, the name of the region encompassing Venice, has a radiant, picturesque authenticity, as do the related Venezia and Venice.

Venetia is the title of a novel by Benjamin Disraeli centering on the character Venetia Herbert, and Venetia Anastasia Stanley was a famous seventeenth century beauty.

Verona is another pretty Italian place name possibility.

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Famous People Named Venetia

• Venetia Anastasia Stanley English beauty; wife of scientist/adventurer Sir Kenelm Digby ("putting her notorious life behind her and becoming a model wife")
• Venetia Mary Stanley Smith Kajiyama, English aristocrat turned expatriate living in Japan known for her NHK television show "At Home with Venetia in Kyoto".
• Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney English mathematician who named the planet Pluto as a schoolgirl in 1930
• Venetia Scott fashion editor/stylist/photographer
• Venetia Dearden English photographer
• Venetia Bowe Irish actress
• (Joanna) Venetia Invicta Stevenson Anglo,American actress
• (Beatrice) Venetia Stanley Montagu English socialite; descendant of Venetia Stanley
• Rosalind Venetia Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, English biochemist

The name Venetia in Pop Culture

• Venetia (1837) novel by Benjamin Disraeli
• Venetia Lanyon main character in "Venetia" (1958) by Georgette Heyer
• Venetia Grime Carter character in Sophie Kinsella's "Shopaholic" series
• Venetia Yewbeam character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King"
• Venetia Scott character in book/film "The Man Who Lost Himself"