Venier families are mainly Italians and they are mostly from Rovinj , but often Croats (from Pula ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Rovinj. In Danci in Buje area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Venier.
Prevalence
About 70 people with faimily name Venier live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in threee Croatian counties and four other places, mostly in Rovinj (40), Pula (<10), Zagreb (<10), Porec (<10), and in Dubrovnik (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1938 in source Phone Book - Zagreb 1938.