Venner Family History
Venner Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Old French veneor veneur ‘hunter huntsman’ (from Latin venator a derivative of venari ‘to hunt’). English: variant of Fenner reflecting the voicing of f that was characteristic of southwestern dialects of Middle English. Dutch and North German: topographic name for someone living by a pit moor or fen from Venn + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant or a habitational name for someone from any of the places called Venn or Venne. South German: variant of Fenner
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022