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I wouldn't use it either, but I know of a woman named Venus who attended the same school as me but many years previously! She died about 20 years ago at the age of about 90. I never saw her, but apparently she never married, was tiny and stooped, in later life anyway, and was a demon Scrabble player who dominated her local Scrabble club.

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I think it's far too ambitious - more people are ordinary-looking or just plain plain than there are people resembling any kind of goddess, let alone Love And Beauty. And a really plain Venus ... it would seem cruel.

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Funnily enough, a cousin of mine married an English woman whose birth surname was Venus. She had twin sisters and I think a brother, so the ln could potentially have been passed on to a new generation. It seems that it was originally a Norman French name; I don't know its origins. And I don't like lnfns either, though I did like my cousin's wife!

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ETA: I found this on Ancestry.com.

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Venus Name Meaning

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English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Venoix in Calvados, France. Spelled thus, the surname is now found principally in northeastern England.

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And, sure enough, the Venus I'm connected to did indeed live in Northumberland all her life.

This message was edited 10/20/2020, 5:53 AM