List of craters on Venus

This article should list only official names approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

•   Lunar: 1,624 craters (31.2%)
•   Venusian: 900 craters (17.3%)
•   Mercurian: 397 craters (7.6%)
•   Martian: 1,092 craters (21.0%)
•   Others: 1,198 craters (23.0%)

Distribution of named craters in the Solar System as of 2017.

This is a list of craters on Venus, named by the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. All craters on Venus are named after famous women or female first names. (For features on Venus other than craters see, list of montes on Venus and List of coronae on Venus.)

As of 2017, there are 900 named craters on Venus, fewer than the lunar and Martian craters but more than on Mercury.

Other, non-planetary bodies with numerous named craters include Callisto (141), Ganymede (131), Rhea (128), Vesta (90), Ceres (90), Dione (73), Iapetus (58), Enceladus (53), Tethys (50) and Europa (41). For a full list, see List of craters in the Solar System.

A

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Abigail		18.4	1994	Hebrew first name	WGPSN
Abika		14.5	1994	Mari first name	WGPSN
Abington		21.7	1994	Frances Abington, British actress	WGPSN
Abra		7.2	1997	Ewe first name	WGPSN
Adaiah		18	1994	Hebrew first name	WGPSN
Adamson		27.2	1994	Joy Adamson, Austrian naturalist	WGPSN
Addams		87	1994	Jane Addams, American social reformer	WGPSN
Adivar		30.3	1991	Halide Edib Adıvar, Turkish author	WGPSN
Adzoba		10	1997	Ewe first name	WGPSN
Aethelflaed		20	1994	Ethelfleda, Mercian queen	WGPSN
Afiba		9.5	1997	Ewe first name	WGPSN
Afiruwa		5.2	1997	Hausa first name	WGPSN
Aftenia		7	1997	Moldavian first name	WGPSN
Afua		10	1997	Akan first name	WGPSN
Aglaonice		63.7	1991	Aglaonice, Ancient Greek astronomer	WGPSN
Agnesi		42.4	1991	Maria Agnesi, Italian mathematician	WGPSN
Agoe		6.3	1997	Ewe first name	WGPSN
Agrippina		38.6	1991	Agrippina the Elder, Roman empress	WGPSN
Ahava		10.4	1997	Hebrew first name	WGPSN
Aigul		6	1997	Kalmykia first name	WGPSN
Ailar		8.2	1997	Turkish first name	WGPSN
Aimee		17	1994	French first name	WGPSN
Aisha		10.6	1997	Arabic first name	WGPSN
Aita		14	1994	Estonian first name	WGPSN
Akeley		23.4	1994	Delia Akeley, American explorer	WGPSN
Akhmatova		41.4	1985	Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet	WGPSN
Akiko		17.4	1994	Yosano Akiko, Japanese poet	WGPSN
Akosua		6.2	1997	Akan first name	WGPSN
Aksentyeva		42.5	1994	Zinaida Aksentyeva, Russian astronomer	WGPSN
Akuba		5.5	1997	Ewe first name	WGPSN
Al-Taymuriyya		19	1991	Ayesha Al-Taymuriyya, Egyptian author	WGPSN
Alcott		66	1991	Louisa May Alcott, American author	WGPSN
Alima		10.3	1994	Arabic first name	WGPSN
Alimat		13.5	1994	Osset first name	WGPSN
Alina		3.7	2009	Short form of French first name Adeline/Adelaide	WGPSN
Alison		14.4	1994	Irish first name	WGPSN
Alma		16.8	1994	Kazakh first name	WGPSN
Almeida		15.5	1985	Portuguese first name	WGPSN
Altana		6	1997	Kalmyk first name	WGPSN
Amalasuntha		15.4	1991	Amalasuntha, Ostrogoth queen	WGPSN
Amanda		12.5	1997	Latin first name	WGPSN
Amaya		34.5	1991	Carmen Amaya, Spanish dancer	WGPSN
Amelia		3.3	2009	Latin first name	WGPSN
Amenardes		27.9	1991	Amenardes, Egyptian princess	WGPSN
Aminata		9.7	1997	Mandinka first name	WGPSN
Anaxandra		20.4	1994	Anaxandra, Ancient Greek artist	WGPSN
Andami		28.9	1991	Azar Andami, Iranian physician and researcher	WGPSN
Andreianova		66.1	1994	Elena Andreianova, Russian ballerina	WGPSN
Anicia		38.2	1991	Anicia, Ancient Greek physician and poet	WGPSN
Annia Faustina		23.4	1991	Faustina the Younger, Roman empress	WGPSN
Antonina		13.8	1985	Russian first name	WGPSN
Anush		12.7	1994	Armenian and Persian first name	WGPSN
Anya		18.1	1985	Russian first name	WGPSN
Ariadne		23.6	1985	Greek first name	WGPSN
Asmik		19.5	1994	Armenian first name	WGPSN
Astrid		10.5	1991	Scandinavian first name	WGPSN
Audrey		15.2	1994	English first name	WGPSN
Aurelia		31.1	1991	Aurelia, mother of Julius Caesar	WGPSN
Austen		45.1	1994	Jane Austen, British novelist	WGPSN
Avene		10	1997	Akan first name	WGPSN
Avviyar		20.6	1991	Avviyar, ancient Tamil poet	WGPSN
Ayana		13.8	1994	Altay first name	WGPSN
Ayashe		6.7	1997	Hausa first name	WGPSN
Ayisatu		7	1997	Fula first name	WGPSN

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B

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Bachira		7.3	1997	Algerian first name	WGPSN
Badarzewska		29.6	1991	Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, Polish composer	WGPSN
Bahriyat		5	1997	Kumyk first name	WGPSN
Baker		109	1994	Josephine Baker, American dancer	WGPSN
Bakisat		7.4	1997	Chechen first name	WGPSN
Balch		40	1994	Emily Balch, American economist	WGPSN
Ban Zhao		39	1991	Ban Zhao, Chinese historian	WGPSN
Baranamtarra		25.5	1994	Baranamtarra, Mesopotamian queen	WGPSN
Barauka		12.9	1997	Hausa first name	WGPSN
Barrera		27	1991	Oliva Sabuco, Spanish medical writer	WGPSN
Barrymore		56.6	1994	Ethel Barrymore, American actress	WGPSN
Barsova		76	1985	Valeria Barsova, Soviet singer	WGPSN
Barto		48	1985	Agniya Barto, Soviet poet	WGPSN
Barton		52.2	1991	Clara Barton, American Red Cross founder	WGPSN
Bascom		34.6	1994	Florence Bascom, American geologist	WGPSN
Bashkirtseff		36.2	1994	Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter and diarist	WGPSN
Bassi		31	1991	Laura Bassi, Italian physicist	WGPSN
Bathsheba		32.3	1994	Bathsheba, Hebrew queen	WGPSN
Batten		65	2000	Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator	WGPSN
Batya		9.3	1997	Hebrew first name	WGPSN
Beecher		40.4	1994	Catharine Beecher, American author	WGPSN
Behn		25.4	1991	Aphra Behn, British writer	WGPSN
Bender		39.8	1997	Heidi Julia Bender, American child author and artist	WGPSN
Berggolts		29.5	1994	Olga Berggolts, Russian poet	WGPSN
Bernadette		12.8	1994	French first name	WGPSN
Bernhardt		25.3	1985	Sarah Bernhardt, French actress	WGPSN
Bernice		12.6	1997	Greek first name	WGPSN
Berta		20	1985	Finnish first name	WGPSN
Bette		7.2	1994	German first name	WGPSN
Bickerdyke		36.3	1994	Mary Ann Bickerdyke, American nurse	WGPSN
Bineta		10.7	1997	Mandinka first name	WGPSN
Birute		22.3	1991	Lithuanian first name	WGPSN
Blackburne		30.5	1994	Anna Blackburne, British biologist	WGPSN
Blanche		12.3	2000	French first name	WGPSN
Blixen		20.8	1991	Karen Blixen, Danish writer	WGPSN
Bly		18.7	1994	Nellie Bly, American journalist	WGPSN
Boivin		20.4	1994	Marie Boivin, French medical researcher	WGPSN
Boleyn		70.4	1994	Anne Boleyn, English queen	WGPSN
Bonnevie		92.2	1991	Kristine Bonnevie, Norwegian biologist	WGPSN
Bonnin		28.5	1994	Gertrude Bonnin, aka Zitkala-Sa, Lakota social reformer	WGPSN
Boulanger		71.5	1991	Nadia Boulanger, French pianist	WGPSN
Bourke-White		33.6	1991	Margaret Bourke-White, American photo-journalist	WGPSN
Boyd		22	1994	Louise Arner Boyd, American explorer	WGPSN
Boye		28	1994	Karin Boye, Swedish writer	WGPSN
Bradstreet		36	1994	Anne Bradstreet, American poet	WGPSN
Bridgit		10	1991	Irish first name	WGPSN
Brooke		22.9	1985	Frances Brooke, English novelist	WGPSN
Browning		23.4	1985	Elizabeth Browning, British poet	WGPSN
Bryce		23.9	1994	Lucy Bryce, Australian medical pioneer	WGPSN
Buck		21.8	1991	Pearl S. Buck, American writer	WGPSN
Budevska		18	1991	Adriana Budevska, Bulgarian actress.	WGPSN
Bugoslavskaya		29.9	1994	Yevgenia Bugoslavskaya, Soviet astronomer.	WGPSN

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C

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Caccini		38.1	1994	Francesca Caccini, Italian composer	WGPSN
Caitlin		14.7	1994	Irish first name	WGPSN
Caiwenji		22.6	1994	Cai Wenji, Chinese poet	WGPSN
Caldwell		51	1994	Taylor Caldwell, American author	WGPSN
Callas		33.8	1991	Maria Callas, American singer	WGPSN
Callirhoe		33.8	1991	Callirhoe, Greek sculptor	WGPSN
Caroline		18	1994	French first name	WGPSN
Carr		31.9	1994	Emily Carr, Canadian artist	WGPSN
Carreno		57	1991	Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist	WGPSN
Carson		38.8	1991	Rachel Carson, American biologist	WGPSN
Carter		17.5	1994	Maybelle Carter, American singer	WGPSN
Castro		22.9	1994	Rosalía de Castro, Galician poet	WGPSN
Cather		24.6	1985	Willa Cather, American novelist	WGPSN
Centlivre		28.8	1994	Susanna Centlivre, English actress	WGPSN
Chapelle		22	1991	Georgette Chapelle, American journalist	WGPSN
Chechek		7.2	1997	Tuvan first name	WGPSN
Chiyojo		40.2	1991	Chiyojo, Japanese poet	WGPSN
Chloe		18.6	1994	Greek first name	WGPSN
Cholpon		6.3	1997	Kyrgyz first name	WGPSN
Christie		23.3	1985	Agatha Christie, English author	WGPSN
Chubado		7	1997	Fulbe first name	WGPSN
Clara		3.2	2000	Latin first name	WGPSN
Clementina		4	2006	Portuguese form of Clementine, French first name	WGPSN
Cleopatra		105	1982	Cleopatra, Egyptian queen	WGPSN
Cline		38	1994	Patsy Cline, American singer	WGPSN
Clio		11.4	1997	Greek first name	WGPSN
Cochran		100	1985	Jacqueline Cochran, American aviator	WGPSN
Cohn		18.3	1994	Carola Cohn, Australian artist	WGPSN
Colleen		13.5	1994	Irish first name	WGPSN
Comnena		19.5	1994	Anna Comnena, Byzantine princess and writer	WGPSN
Conway		49.3	1994	Lady Anne Finch Conway, English natural scientist	WGPSN
Cori		56.1	1991	Gerty Cori, Czech biochemist	WGPSN
Corinna		19.2	1994	Corinna, Greek poet	WGPSN
Corpman		46	1994	Elizabeth Koopman Hevelius, German astronomer	WGPSN
Cortese		27.7	1994	Isabella Cortese, Italian physician	WGPSN
Cotton		48.1	1985	Eugénie Cotton, French physicist	WGPSN
Cunitz		48.6	1991	Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer	WGPSN
Cynthia		15.9	1991	Greek first name	WGPSN

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D

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
d'Este		21.6	1994	Isabella d'Este, Italian noblewoman	WGPSN
Dado		11.2	1997	Fulbe first name	WGPSN
Dafina		5.5	1997	Albanian first name	WGPSN
Danilova		48.8	1991	Maria Danilova, Russian ballet dancer	WGPSN
Danute		12.3	1994	Lithuanian first name	WGPSN
Daphne		15.5	1994	Greek first name	WGPSN
Darline		13	1994	Anglo-Saxon first name	WGPSN
Dashkova		45.1	1985	Yekatrina Dashkova, Russian philologist	WGPSN
Datsolalee		17.5	1994	Datsolalee, Washoe artist	WGPSN
de Ayala		19	1994	Josefa de Ayala, Spanish painter	WGPSN
de Beausoleil		28.2	1994	Martine de Beausoleil, French earth science researcher	WGPSN
de Beauvoir		52.5	1991	Simone de Beauvoir, French writer	WGPSN
de Lalande		21.3	1991	Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, French astronomer	WGPSN
de Staël		25	1994	Anne de Staël, French writer	WGPSN
De Witt		20.7	1994	Lydia De Witt, American pathologist	WGPSN
Deborah		9.7	1997	Hebrew first name	WGPSN
Defa		8.5	1997	Fulbe first name	WGPSN
Degu		5.5	1997	Adygan first name	WGPSN
Deken		48	1985	Agatha Deken, Dutch novelist	WGPSN
Deledda		32	1985	Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist	WGPSN
Delilah		18.5	1994	Hebrew first name	WGPSN
Deloria		31.9	1991	Ella Deloria, Sioux Anthropologist	WGPSN
Dena		2.4	2000	Lithuanian first name	WGPSN
Denise		2	2006	Greek first name	WGPSN
Devorah		4.8	1994	Hebrew first name	WGPSN
Devorguilla		22.9	1991	Devorguilla Irish heroine	WGPSN
Dheepa		4.7	2000	Indian first name	WGPSN
Dickinson		67.5	1985	Emily Dickinson, American poet	WGPSN
Dinah		15.6	1994	Hebrew first name	WGPSN
Dix		63.3	1994	Dorothea Dix, American social activist	WGPSN
Dolores		12.6	1985	Spanish first name	WGPSN
Domnika		6.7	1997	Moldavian first name	WGPSN
Doris		14.5	1994	Greek first name	WGPSN
Dorothy		8.4	1997	Greek first name	WGPSN
du Chatelet		18.5	1994	Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician, physicist	WGPSN
Duncan		40.3	1985	Isadora Duncan, American dancer	WGPSN
Dunghe		5.5	1997	Kalmyk first name	WGPSN
Durant		21.1	1994	Ariel Durant, American writer	WGPSN
Duse		30.4	1994	Eleonora Duse, Italian actress	WGPSN
Dyasya		7.8	1997	Nganasan (Samoyed) first name	WGPSN

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E

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Edgeworth		29	1985	Maria Edgeworth, Irish writer	WGPSN
Edinger		33.3	1994	Tilly Edinger, American geologist	WGPSN
Efimova		26.5	1985	Nina Simonovich-Efimova, Soviet painter	WGPSN
Eila		9.5	1997	Finnish first name	WGPSN
Eileen		16.1	1994	Irish first name	WGPSN
Eini		5.9	1997	Finnish first name	WGPSN
Elena		17.6	1994	Italian first name	WGPSN
Elenora		4.5	2003	German first name (variation of Eleanor)	WGPSN
Elizabeth		10.5	1997	Hebrew first name	WGPSN
Ellen		14.6	1997	German first name	WGPSN
Elma		10.2	1997	Finnish first name	WGPSN
Elza		18	1994	Latvian first name	WGPSN
Emilia		12.5	1997	Swedish first name	WGPSN
Emma		11.8	1997	German first name	WGPSN
Enid		9.2	1997	Celtic first name	WGPSN
Erika		10.5	1985	Hungarian, German first name	WGPSN
Erin		13.6	1994	Irish first name	WGPSN
Erinna		33.8	1994	Erinna, ancient Greek poet	WGPSN
Erkeley		8	1997	Altai first name	WGPSN
Ermolova		60.9	1985	Maria Yermolova, Russian actress	WGPSN
Erxleben		31.6	1991	Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, German physician	WGPSN
Escoda		19.6	1994	Josefa Llanes Escoda, Philippine social reformer	WGPSN
Esmeralda		9.8	1997	Roma first name	WGPSN
Estelle		18.8	1994	Latin first name	WGPSN
Esterica		3.6	2003	Romanian first name	WGPSN
Esther		17.6	1994	Persian first name	WGPSN
Eudocia		27.5	1994	Aelia Eudocia, ancient Roman noblewoman	WGPSN
Eugenia		6	1997	Greek first name	WGPSN
Evangeline		16	1994	Greek first name	WGPSN
Evelyn		18	1997	Celtic first name	WGPSN
Evika		20.3	1994	Tatar first name	WGPSN
Ezraela		7.8	1997	Hebrew first name	WGPSN

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F

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Faiga		9.6	1994	Anglo-Saxon first name	WGPSN
Faina		10	1997	Turkish first name	WGPSN
Farida		18	1994	Muslim first name from Arabic	WGPSN
Fatima		14.5	1994	Arabic first name	WGPSN
Faufau		7.8	1997	Polynesian first name	WGPSN
Fava		9.7	1997	Dunghan (Kyrgyzstan) first name	WGPSN
Fazu		6.1	1997	Avarian (Daghestan) first name	WGPSN
Fedorets		57.6	1985	Valentina Aleksandrovna Fedorets, Soviet astronomer	WGPSN
Felicia		11.5	1994	Latin first name	WGPSN
Ferber		23.1	1991	Edna Ferber, American writer	WGPSN
Fernandez		23.7	1985	Maria Antonia Fernandez, Spanish actress	WGPSN
Ferrier		29.1	1991	Kathleen Ferrier, English contralto singer	WGPSN
Feruk		8.3	1997	Nivkhi (Sakhalin Isl.) first name	WGPSN
Festa		35.3	1991	Italian painter	WGPSN
Fiona		3.5	2003	Celtic first name	WGPSN
Firuza		6	1997	Persian first name	WGPSN
Flagstad		39.2	1991	Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer	WGPSN
Florence		10.5	1997	English first name	WGPSN
Flutra		6	1997	Albanian first name	WGPSN
Fossey		30.4	1994	Dian Fossey, American primatologist	WGPSN
Fouquet		47.8	1994	Marie Fouquet, French medical writer and charity worker	WGPSN
Francesca		17	1994	Italian first name	WGPSN
Frank		22.7	1991	Anne Frank, German diarist	WGPSN
Fredegonde		25.2	1991	Fredegund, Frankish queen	WGPSN
Frida		21.6	1985	Swedish first name	WGPSN
Frosya		9.8	1997	Russian first name	WGPSN
Fukiko		13.9	1994	Japanese first name	WGPSN

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G

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Gabriela		17.5	1994	Hebrew first name	WGPSN
Gahano		4.5	1997	Seneca first name	WGPSN
Gail		10	2006	Hebrew first name	WGPSN
Galina		16.8	1985	Bulgarian first name	WGPSN
Galindo		23.8	1994	Beatrix Galindo, Spanish physician and educator	WGPSN
Gautier		59.3	1994	Judith Gautier, French poet and novelist	WGPSN
Gaze		33.3	1994	Vera Gaze, Soviet astronomer	WGPSN
Gentileschi		20.5	1994	Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter	WGPSN
Georgina		5.9	1997	Greek first name	WGPSN
Germain		35.5	1991	Sophie Germain, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher	WGPSN
Giliani		19.9	1994	Alessandra Giliani, Italian anatomist	WGPSN
Gillian		14.7	1994	Latin first name	WGPSN
Gilmore		21.3	1994	Mary Gilmore, Australian poet and journalist	WGPSN
Gina		14.6	1985	Italian first name	WGPSN
Giselle		10.4	1997	French first name	WGPSN
Glaspell		26.3	1994	Susan Glaspell, American writer	WGPSN
Gloria		20.7	1985	Portuguese first name	WGPSN
Godiva		30.7	1994	Lady Godiva Mercian noblewoman	WGPSN
Goeppert-Mayer		33.5	1991	Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German theoretical physicist	WGPSN
Golubkina		28.4	1985	Anna Golubkina, Soviet sculptor	WGPSN
Goncharova		30.3	1994	Natalia Goncharova, Russian avant-garde artist	WGPSN
Grace		19	1994	Greek first name	WGPSN
Gražina		16.5	1994	Lithuanian first name	WGPSN
Greenaway		93	1991	Kate Greenaway, English children's book illustrator and writer	WGPSN
Gregory		18	1994	Isabella Augusta Gregory, Irish dramatist	WGPSN
Gretchen		20.8	1994	German first name	WGPSN
Grey		50	1994	Lady Jane Grey, English noblewoman and de facto monarch of England for 9 days	WGPSN
Grimke		34.8	1994	Sarah Grimké, American social reformer	WGPSN
Guan Daosheng		43.6	1994	Guan Daosheng, Chinese painter and calligrapher	WGPSN
Gudrun		13.3	1994	Norse first name	WGPSN
Guilbert		25.5	1991	Yvette Guilbert, French cabaret singer and actress	WGPSN
Gulchatay		9	1997	Arabic first name	WGPSN
Gulnara		5	1997	Persian first name	WGPSN
Guzel		7.3	1997	Turkish first name	WGPSN
Gwynn		32	1994	Nell Gwyn, Long-time mistress of King Charles II of England	WGPSN

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Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Hadisha		8.9	1997	Kazakh first name	WGPSN
Halima		8.9	1997	Hausa first name	WGPSN
Halle		21.5	1991	Wilhelmina Halle (Wilma Neruda), Austrian violinist	WGPSN
Hamuda		15.8	2000	Hebrew first name	WGPSN
Hanka		5	1997	Czech first name	WGPSN
Hannah		19.8	1994	Hebrew first name	WGPSN
Hansberry		26.6	1994	Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright	WGPSN
Hapei		4.2	1997	Cheyenne (Oklahoma) first name	WGPSN
Hayashi		43.1	1985	Hayashi Fumiko, Japanese writer	WGPSN
Heather		11.5	1994	English first name	WGPSN
Heidi		15.2	1994	First name, form of Hester.	WGPSN
Helga		8.8	1997	Norwegian first name.	WGPSN
Hellman		34.7	1991	Lillian Hellman, American playwright	WGPSN
Heloise		38	1994	Heloise, French physician	WGPSN
Helvi		12.2	1997	Estonian first name.	WGPSN
Henie		70.4	1991	Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater	WGPSN
Hepworth		62.6	1991	Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (1903–1975).	WGPSN
Higgins		40	1994	Marguerite Higgins, American journalist (1920–1966).	WGPSN
Hilkka		10.3	1997	Finnish first name.	WGPSN
Himiko		36.6	1991	Himiko, Japanese queen (4th century).	WGPSN
Hiriata		5	1997	Polynesian first name.	WGPSN
Hiromi		6	1997	Japanese first name.	WGPSN
Holiday		27.7	1991	Billie Holiday, American singer (1915–1959).	WGPSN
Horner		25.2	1991	Mary Horner, English naturalist, geologist (19th century).	WGPSN
Howe		38.6	1994	Julia Howe, American biographer, poet (1819–1910).	WGPSN
Hsueh Tʻao		21	1994	Hsüeh Tʻao, Chinese poet, artist (c. AD 760).	WGPSN
Hua Mulan		24	1991	Hua Mulan, Chinese warrior (c. AD 590).	WGPSN
Huang Daopo		29.1	1991	Huang Daopo, Chinese engineer.	WGPSN
Huarei		8.5	1997	Polynesian first name.	WGPSN
Hull		47.3	1994	Peggy Hull, American war correspondent (1889–1967).	WGPSN
Hurston		52.4	1994	Zora Hurston, American writer, anthropologist (1891–1960).	WGPSN
Hwangcini		30.2	1991	Hwang Jini, Korean poet (16th century)	WGPSN

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Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Icheko		5.9	1997	Evenk/Tungu first name	WGPSN
Ichikawa		31.4	1994	Fusae Ichikawa, Japanese feminist (1893–1981).	WGPSN
Ilga		10.8	1994	Latvian first name.	WGPSN
Imagmi		7.6	1997	Eskimo (Chukotka) first name.	WGPSN
Indira		16.6	1985	Hindu first name.	WGPSN
Ines		11.2	1997	First name, Galician-Portuguese and Spanish version of Agnes.	WGPSN
Inga		10	1997	Danish first name.	WGPSN
Ingrid		11.5	1994	Scandinavian first name.	WGPSN
Inira		16.5	1994	Eskimo first name.	WGPSN
Inkeri		10.1	1997	Finnish first name.	WGPSN
Iondra		7.9	1997	Selkup (Samoyed) first name.	WGPSN
Iraida		6.5	1997	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Irene		13.6	1994	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Irina		15.2	1985	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Irinuca		8	1997	Romanian first name.	WGPSN
Irma		9.5	1997	Finnish first name.	WGPSN
Isabella		175	1994	Isabella I of Castile, Spanish queen (1451–1504).	WGPSN
Isako		13.5	1994	Japanese first name.	WGPSN
Isolde		11.9	1997	English first name.	WGPSN
Istadoy		5.4	1997	Tajik/Persian first name.	WGPSN
Ivka		14.9	1985	Serbo-Croatian first name.	WGPSN
Ivne		9	1997	Koryak (Kamchatka) first name.	WGPSN
Izakay		10.2	1997	Mari first name.	WGPSN
Izudyr		6.6	1997	Mari (Volga Finn) first name.	WGPSN

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J

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Jaantje		7.8	1997	Dutch first name.	WGPSN
Jacqueline		16.5	1994	French first name.	WGPSN
Jadwiga		12.7	1985	Polish first name.	WGPSN
Jalgurik		7.5	1997	Evenk/Tungu first name.	WGPSN
Jamila		7.9	1997	Arabic first name.	WGPSN
Jane		10.2	1997	Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Janice		10	1997	English first name.	WGPSN
Janina		9.3	1997	Polish first name.	WGPSN
Janyl		5.6	1997	Kyrgyz first name.	WGPSN
Jasmin		15.1	2000	Persian first name.	WGPSN
Jeanne		19.4	1985	French first name.	WGPSN
Jennifer		9.6	1994	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Jerusha		17.2	1994	Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Jex-Blake		31.6	1991	Sophia Jex-Blake, British pioneer woman physician (1840–1912).	WGPSN
Jhirad		50.2	1994	Jerusha Jhirad, Indian physician.	WGPSN
Jitka		13	1997	Slovakian first name.	WGPSN
Jocelyn		14	1994	German first name.	WGPSN
Jodi		10.2	1997	English first name.	WGPSN
Johanna		15.1	1994	Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Johnson		24.5	1994	Amy Johnson, Australian aviator (1903–1941).	WGPSN
Joliot-Curie		91.1	1991	Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate (1897–1956).	WGPSN
Joshee		37	1994	Anandibai Joshee, Indian pioneer physician (1865–1887).	WGPSN
Juanita		19.3	1994	Spanish first name.	WGPSN
Judith		16.6	1994	Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Julie		13.5	1985	Czech, German first name.	WGPSN
Jumaisat		7.5	1997	Kumyk (Daghestan) first name.	WGPSN
Jutta		7	1997	Finnish first name.	WGPSN

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Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Kafutchi		7.1	1997	Bantu first name.	WGPSN
Kahlo		35.6	1994	Frida Kahlo, Mexican artist (1910–1954).	WGPSN
Kaikilani		19.9	1994	Kaikilani, first female ruler of Hawaii, (c. 1555).	WGPSN
Kaisa		12	1997	Finnish first name.	WGPSN
Kala		17.4	1994	Koryak (Kamchatka) first name.	WGPSN
Kalombo		9.6	1997	Bantu first name.	WGPSN
Kanik		16.5	1994	Sakhalin first name.	WGPSN
Karen		10.5	1997	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Karo		7	1997	Maori first name.	WGPSN
Kartini		23.4	1991	Kartini, Javanese educator (1879–1904).	WGPSN
Kastusha		13	1997	Mordovian (Volga River Finn, Russia) first name.	WGPSN
Katrya		9.2	1997	Ukrainian first name.	WGPSN
Katya		10.5	1997	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Kauffman		25.5	1985	Angelica Kauffman, German painter (1741–1807).	WGPSN
Kavtora		9.8	1997	Afghan first name.	WGPSN
Kelea		24.5	1994	Chiefess of Maui, Keleanohoanaʻapiʻapi (c. 1450).	WGPSN
Kelila		5	1997	Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Kelly		11.2	1994	Gaelic first name.	WGPSN
Kemble		23.6	1985	Fanny Kemble, English actress (1809–1893).	WGPSN
Kenny		52.7	1994	Elizabeth Kenny, Australian nurse, therapist (1880–1952).	WGPSN
Ketzia		14.6	1997	Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Khadako		7.4	1997	Nenets (Samoyed) first name.	WGPSN
Khafiza		7	1997	Arabic first name.	WGPSN
Khatun		44.1	1985	Mihri Khatun, Turkish poet (1456–1514).	WGPSN
Khelifa		10.8	1994	Arabic first name.	WGPSN
Kimitonga		5	1997	Polynesian first name.	WGPSN
Kingsley		26.6	1994	Mary Kingsley, English explorer, writer (1862–1900).	WGPSN
Kiris		13.3	1994	Latvian first name.	WGPSN
Kitna		15.3	1994	Kamchatka first name.	WGPSN
Klafsky		25.5	1994	Katharina Klafsky, Hungarian opera singer (1855–1896).	WGPSN
Klenova		141	1985	Maria Klenova, Soviet marine geologist (c. 1910–1978).	WGPSN
Kodu		10.5	1997	Wolof (W. Africa, Senegal) first name.	WGPSN
Koidula		67	1985	Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet(1843–1886).	WGPSN
Koinyt		11.7	1997	Nivkh (E. Siberia) first name.	WGPSN
Kollado		5.5	1997	Fulbe first name.	WGPSN
Kollwitz		29.1	1991	Kathe, German artist (1867–1945).	WGPSN
Konopnicka		20.1	1994	Maria Konopnicka Polish poet (1842–1910).	WGPSN
Kosi		7.7	1997	Ewe first name.	WGPSN
Kristina		9.7	1997	Slavonic form of Christiana, Latin first name.	WGPSN
Kumba		11.4	1997	Fulbe (W. Africa, Guinea) first name.	WGPSN
Kumudu		4.4	1997	Singalese first name.	WGPSN
Kuro		8.8	1997	Fulbe first name.	WGPSN
Kyen		5.2	1997	Bantu first name.	WGPSN
Kylli		13.2	1997	Finnish first name.	WGPSN

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Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
La Fayette		39.6	1985	Marie la Fayette.	WGPSN
Lachappelle		36.8	1991	Marie Lachappelle, French medical researcher (1769–1821).	WGPSN
Lagerlöf		56	1985	Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish novelist (1858–1940).	WGPSN
Landowska		33	1985	Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (1877–1959).	WGPSN
Langtry		50.3	1994	Lillie Langtry, English actress (1853–1929).	WGPSN
Lara		3.4	1997	Latin first name.	WGPSN
Larisa		3.7	2007	Latin first name.	WGPSN
Laulani		12.4	1994	Hawaiian first name.	WGPSN
Laura		17.2	1985	Spanish, Italian first name.	WGPSN
Laurencin		29.8	1994	Marie Laurencin, French painter (1885–1956).	WGPSN
Lazarus		24.2	1994	Emma Lazarus, American poet (1849–1887).	WGPSN
Leah		12	1994	Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Lebedeva		37.4	1994	Sarah Lebedeva, Soviet sculptor (1881–1968).	WGPSN
Lehmann		21.7	1991	Inge Lehmann, Danish geophysicist (1888-1993).	WGPSN
Leida		18.8	1994	Estonian first name.	WGPSN
Leila		18.8	1994	Arabic first name.	WGPSN
Lena		15.2	1985	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Lenore		15.5	1994	Greek first name (form of Helen).	WGPSN
Leona		3	2000	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Leonard		31.7	1994	Wrexie Leonard, American assistant to P. Lowell (1867–1937).	WGPSN
Leslie		7.2	1997	English first name.	WGPSN
Letitia		17.5	1994	Latin first name.	WGPSN
Leyster		45.8	1994	Judith Leyster, Dutch painter (1609–1660).	WGPSN
Lhagva		7.9	1997	Mongolian first name.	WGPSN
Li Qingzhao		22.8	1991	Li Qingzhao, Chinese essayist, scholar (1085–1151).	WGPSN
Lida		20.3	1991	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Lilian		13.5	1994	Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Liliya		15	1985	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Lind		25.8	1985	Jenny Lind, Swedish singer (1820–1887).	WGPSN
Linda		7.1	1997	Latin first name.	WGPSN
Lineta		15.6	1994	Latvian first name.	WGPSN
Lisa		4.5	2006	Hebrew first name, short form of Elizabeth.	WGPSN
Liv		11.2	1997	Norwegian first name.	WGPSN
Loan		7.4	1997	Vietnamese first name.	WGPSN
Lockwood		22	1994	Belva Lockwood, American lawyer, feminist (1830–1917).	WGPSN
Lois		13.5	1994	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Lonsdale		43	1994	Kathleen Lonsdale, English physicist, crystallographer (1903–1971).	WGPSN
Loretta		13.5	1994	Latin first name.	WGPSN
Lotta		11.8	1985	Swedish first name.	WGPSN
Lu Zhi		8.3	1997	Chinese first name.	WGPSN
Lucia		16	1994	Latin first name.	WGPSN
Lullin		25.1	1991	Maria Lullin, (1751-1822) wife of the Swiss entomologist François Huber (1750–1831).	WGPSN
Lydia		15.2	1994	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Lyon		12.4	1994	Mary Lyon, American educator, college president (1797–1849).	WGPSN
Lyuba		12.4	1997	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Lyudmila		14.1	1985	Russian first name.	WGPSN

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M

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Ma Shouzhen		18.9	1994	Ma Shouzhen, Chinese poet, painter (1592–1628).	WGPSN
Maa-Ling		6	1994	Chinese first name.	WGPSN
MacDonald		17.6	1994	Flora MacDonald, Scottish Jacobite.	WGPSN
Madeleine		16	1994	French first name.	WGPSN
Madina		6.3	1997	Kabarda first name.	WGPSN
Mae		7.5	1997	Greek first name, form of Margaret. Possibly named for engineer, physicist, and NASA astronaut Mae Jemison, the first African American woman to travel into space.	WGPSN
Magda		10.1	1985	Danish first name.	WGPSN
Magdalena		11.5	1997	Spanish form of Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Magnani		26.4	1985	Anna Magnani.	WGPSN
Mahina		15.4	1994	Hawaiian first name.	WGPSN
Makola		16.6	1994	Hawaiian first name.	WGPSN
Maltby		36.6	1994	Margaret Maltby, American physicist (1860–1944).	WGPSN
Mamajan		2	1997	Turkman first name from Persian.	WGPSN
Mansa		8.1	1997	Akan first name.	WGPSN
Manton		20.5	1994	Sidnie Manton, English zoologist (1902–1980) Irene Manton, botanist (1904–1988).	WGPSN
Manzolini		41.8	1991	Anna Morandi, Italian anatomist, teacher (1716–1774).	WGPSN
Maranda		16.8	1994	Latvian first name.	WGPSN
Marere		6.3	1997	Polynesian first name.	WGPSN
Maret		11.7	1997	Estonian first name.	WGPSN
Margarita		13	1994	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Margit		14	1985	Hungarian first name.	WGPSN
Maria Celeste		97.5	1991	Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo (d. 1634).	WGPSN
Marianne		9	1997	Greek first name, from Mary.	WGPSN
Marie		14.2	1994	French first name. Possibly after Marie Curie.	WGPSN
Mariko		12.9	1997	Japanese first name.	WGPSN
Markham		71.8	1994	Beryl Markham.	WGPSN
Marsh		47.7	1991	Ngaio Marsh.	WGPSN
Martinez		23.5	1994	Maria Martinez.	WGPSN
Marysya		6.3	1997	Belarusian first name.	WGPSN
Marzhan		13.8	1994	Karakal first name.	WGPSN
Masako		23.8	1994	Hozyo Masako.	WGPSN
Masha		6.4	1997	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Matahina		8.5	1997	Polynesian first name.	WGPSN
Maurea		9.9	1997	Polynesian first name.	WGPSN
Mbul'di		6	1997	Fulbe/Wodabi first name.	WGPSN
Mead		270	1991	Margaret Mead.	WGPSN
Medhavi		30.4	1994	Pandita Ramabai Medhavi, East Indian author, humanitarian (1858–1922).	WGPSN
Megan		15.8	1994	Welsh first name.	WGPSN
Meitner		149	1979	Lise Meitner.	WGPSN
Melanie		12.3	1994	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Melanka		9	1997	Ukrainian first name.	WGPSN
Melba		21.8	1994	Nellie Melba.	WGPSN
Melina		12.7	1997	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Meredith		11.4	1997	English first name.	WGPSN
Merian		22.2	1991	Maria Sibylla Merian.	WGPSN
Merit Ptah		16.5	1994	Merit Ptah.	WGPSN
Michelle		15	1994	French first name.	WGPSN
Mildred		12	1997	English first name.	WGPSN
Millay		48	1991	Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (1892–1950).	WGPSN
Miovasu		4.5	1997	Cheyenne first name.	WGPSN
Mirabeau		23.8	1994	Sibylle Riquetti de Mirabeau, French writer (d. 1932).	WGPSN
Miriam		16.5	1994	Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Mona Lisa		79.4	1991	Lisa Giacondo, the model for Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa (b. c. 1474).	WGPSN
Monika		25.5	1985	German first name.	WGPSN
Montessori		42.1	1985	Maria Montessori.	WGPSN
Montez		21.1	1994	Lola Montez.	WGPSN
Moore		21.1	1994	Marianne Moore.	WGPSN
Morisot		48	1994	Berthe Morisot.	WGPSN
Mosaido		7.4	1997	Fulbe/Wodabi first name.	WGPSN
Moses		28	1985	Grandma Moses, American folk artist.	WGPSN
Mowatt		38.4	1994	Anna Cora Mowatt, American actress, playwright, author (1819–1870).	WGPSN
Mu Guiying		32.3	1991	Mu Guiying, Chinese warrior.	WGPSN
Mukhina		24.5	1985	Vera Mukhina.	WGPSN
Mumtaz-Mahal		38.2	1994	Mumtaz Mahal.	WGPSN
Munter		32.1	1994	Gabriele Münter.	WGPSN
Muriel		20.2	1994	Greek first name.	WGPSN

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N

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Nadeyka		9.3	1997	Belarusian first name.	WGPSN
Nadia		11.3	1997	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Nadine		18.6	1994	French first name.	WGPSN
Nadira		31.4	1985	Nodira Uzbek poet (1791–1842).	WGPSN
Nakai		4.5	1997	Cheyenne first name.	WGPSN
Nalkowska		22.2	1994	Zofia Nałkowska, Polish novelist, playwright (1884–1954).	WGPSN
Nalkuta		6.5	1997	Ossetian (N. Caucasus) first name.	WGPSN
Namiko		13	1997	Japanese first name.	WGPSN
Nana		8.8	1985	Serbo-Croatian first name.	WGPSN
Nancy		4.4	2010	Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Nanichi		19	2000	Taíno (Puerto Rico) first name.	WGPSN
Naomi		17.5	1994	Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Nastya		12.5	1997	From Anastasiya, Russian first name.	WGPSN
Natalia		10.8	1985	Romanian first name.	WGPSN
Ndella		5.9	1997	Wolof first name.	WGPSN
Neda		7.7	1997	Macedonian first name.	WGPSN
Nedko		8.5	1997	Nenets (Samoyed) first name.	WGPSN
Neeltje		10	1997	Dutch first name.	WGPSN
Nelike		6.3	1997	Nanay (E. Siberia) first name.	WGPSN
Němcová		22.9	1991	Božena Němcová, Czech novelist, poet (1820–1882).	WGPSN
Nevelson		69.8	1994	Louise Nevelson, American artist (1899–1988).	WGPSN
Ngaio		9.5	1997	Maori first name.	WGPSN
Ngone		12.2	1997	Wolof (W. Africa, Senegal) first name.	WGPSN
Nicole		6.4	1997	French first name.	WGPSN
Nijinskaya		36.2	1991	Bronislava Nijinskaya, Russian dancer (1891–1972).	WGPSN
Nilanti		9.2	1997	Singalese first name.	WGPSN
Nilsson		27.3	1994	Christina Nilsson, Swedish opera singer, violinist (1843–1921).	WGPSN
Nin		27.1	1994	Anaïs Nin, French novelist (1903–1977).	WGPSN
Nina		24.6	1994	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Ninzi		7.1	1997	Burma (Myanmar) first name.	WGPSN
Nofret		22.5	1994	Nofret, Egyptian queen (c. 1900 BC).	WGPSN
Nomeda		10.4	1997	Lithuanian first name.	WGPSN
Noreen		18.6	1994	Irish first name.	WGPSN
Noriko		7.5	1994	Japanese first name.	WGPSN
Nsele		5.1	1997	Mandingo first name.	WGPSN
Nuon		6.5	1997	Khmer first name.	WGPSN
Nuriet		17.9	2000	Adygan (N. Caucasus) first name.	WGPSN
Nutsa		8	1997	Abkhazian (Georgia) first name.	WGPSN
Nyal'ga		5.5	1997	Fulbe/Wodabi first name.	WGPSN
Nyele		11.9	1997	Mandingo (W. Africa, Mali) first name.	WGPSN
Nyogari		13	1997	Ewe (W. Africa, Ghana) first name.	WGPSN

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O

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
O'Connor		30.4	1991	Flannery O'Connor.	WGPSN
O'Keeffe		76.9	1994	Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (1887–1986).	WGPSN
Oakley		18.4	1994	Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter, entertainer (1860–1926).	WGPSN
Obukhova		46	1985	Nadezhda Obukhova, Soviet singer (1886–1961).	WGPSN
Odarka		7	1997	Ukrainian first name.	WGPSN
Odikha		10.6	1997	Uzbek first name.	WGPSN
Odilia		20.8	1985	Portuguese first name.	WGPSN
Ogulbek		6.5	1997	Turkman first name.	WGPSN
Oivit		4.8	1997	Cheyenne first name.	WGPSN
Oksana		7.7	1997	Ukrainian first name.	WGPSN
Oku		13.3	1997	Karelian first name.	WGPSN
Olena		7	1997	Ukrainian first name.	WGPSN
Olesnicka		33	1994	Zofia Oleśnicka, Polish poet (fl. c. 1550).	WGPSN
Olesya		12	1997	Ukrainian first name.	WGPSN
Olga		15.5	1994	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Olivia		10.2	1997	Latin first name.	WGPSN
Olya		13.4	1985	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Oma		7.6	2000	Sioux first name.	WGPSN
Onissya		8.2	1997	Komi-Permyak (Urals Finn) first name.	WGPSN
Opika		9.8	1997	Chuvash (Volga area) first name.	WGPSN
Orczy		26.9	1994	Emmuska Orczy, Hungarian novelist, playwright (1865–1947).	WGPSN
Orguk		11.7	1997	Nivkhi (Amur River area, E. Siberia) first name.	WGPSN
Orlette		12.5	1997	French first name.	WGPSN
Orlova		19.6	1985	Lyubov Orlova, Soviet actress (1902–1975).	WGPSN
Ortensia		7	1997	Italian first name.	WGPSN
Oshalche		8.3	1997	Mari (Volga Finn) first name.	WGPSN
Osipenko		30	1985	Polina Osipenko, Soviet aviator (1907–1939).	WGPSN
Ottavia		12.9	1997	Roman first name.	WGPSN
Outi		10.5	1997	Finnish first name.	WGPSN

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P

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Paige		6.8	1997	Italian first name.	WGPSN
Pamela		14.2	1994	English first name.	WGPSN
Parishan		6.8	1997	Persian first name.	WGPSN
Parra		42.4	1991	Violeta Parra, Chilean folklore artist (1917 - 1967).	WGPSN
Parvina		7	1997	Persian (Tajik) first name.	WGPSN
Pasha		7.2	1997	Russian first name from Persian.	WGPSN
Pat		10.1	1997	English first name.	WGPSN
Patimat		5.1	1997	Avarian (Daghestan) first name.	WGPSN
Patti		47	1985	Adelina Patti, Italian singer (1843–1919).	WGPSN
Pavlinka		7.5	1997	Belarusian first name.	WGPSN
Peck		30.4	1994	Annie Smith Peck, American mountaineer, educator (1850–1935).	WGPSN
Peggy		11.9	1994	English first name (form of Margaret).	WGPSN
Peña		29.6	1994	Tonita Peña (Quah Ah), Pueblo artist (1895–1949).	WGPSN
Phaedra		15.7	1994	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Philomena		14.8	1997	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Phryne		39.4	1994	Phryne, Greek model, courtesan (4th century BC).	WGPSN
Phyllis		11.4	1994	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Piaf		39.1	1991	Edith Piaf, French singer, songwriter (1915–1963).	WGPSN
Piret		27	1991	Estonian first name.	WGPSN
Pirkko		12.3	1997	Finnish first name.	WGPSN
Piscopia		26.2	1994	Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician, educator (1646–1684).	WGPSN
Polenova		41	2000	Elena Polenova, Russian painter, folk crafts trustee (1850–1898).	WGPSN
Polina		21.6	1985	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Ponselle		57.7	1994	Rosa Ponselle, American opera singer (1897–1981).	WGPSN
Potanina		94.2	1985	Aleksandra Potanina, Russian explorer (1843–1893).	WGPSN
Potter		46.9	1994	Beatrix Potter, English children's author (1866–1943).	WGPSN
Prichard		23.3	1985	Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian writer (1884–1969).	WGPSN
Puhioia		5.5	1997	Maori first name.	WGPSN
Purev		11.6	1997	Mongolian first name.	WGPSN
Pychik		10.1	1997	Chukcha (NE Siberia) first name.	WGPSN

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Q

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Qarlygha		9.3	1997	Kazakh first name.	WGPSN
Quimby		23.2	1997	Harriet Quimby, American aviator (1884–1912).	WGPSN
Qulzhan		7.9	1997	Kazakh first name.	WGPSN
Quslu		8.7	1997	Kazakh first name.	WGPSN

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R

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Rachel		12.5	1994	Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Radhika		7.9	1997	Hindu first name.	WGPSN
Radka		10.5	1985	Bulgarian first name.	WGPSN
Radmila		5.2	1997	Serbo-Croatian first name.	WGPSN
Rae		5.5	1997	From Rachel, Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Rafiga		5.7	1997	Azeri first name from Arabic.	WGPSN
Raisa		13.5	1994	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Raki		7.5	1997	Fulbe first name.	WGPSN
Rampyari		7.7	1997	Hindu first name.	WGPSN
Rand		24.3	1994	Ayn Rand, American writer (1905–1982).	WGPSN
Rani		10.7	1985	Hindu first name.	WGPSN
Raymonde		5.3	1997	French first name.	WGPSN
Rebecca		9.5	1997	Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Recamier		25.3	1991	Julie Récamier, French patriot, defied Napoleon (c. 1777-c. 1849).	WGPSN
Regina		24.9	1985	Latin first name.	WGPSN
Reiko		9.7	1997	Japanese first name.	WGPSN
Retno		7.2	1997	Indonesian first name.	WGPSN
Rhoda		12.2	1994	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Rhys		44	1994	Jean Rhys, Welsh writer (1894–1979).	WGPSN
Richards		25	1994	Ellen Richards, founder of science of ecology (1842–1911).	WGPSN
Riley		20.2	1991	Margaretta Riley, English botanist (1804–1899).	WGPSN
Rita		8.3	1985	Italian first name.	WGPSN
Romanskaya		30.4	1994	Sofia Romanskaya, Soviet astronomer (1886–1969).	WGPSN
Romola		17.5	2000	Italian first name.	WGPSN
Roptyna		11.5	1997	Chukcha (NE Siberia) first name.	WGPSN
Rosa Bonheur		104	1994	Rosa Bonheur, French painter (1822–1899).	WGPSN
Rose		15.5	1994	German first name.	WGPSN
Rossetti		23.4	1985	Christina Rossetti, English poet (1830–1894).	WGPSN
Rowena		19.5	1994	Celtic first name.	WGPSN
Roxanna		9.5	1991	Persian first name.	WGPSN
Royle		6.1	1997	Bashkir first name.	WGPSN
Rudneva		29.8	1985	Varvara Rudneva, Russian physician (1844–1899).	WGPSN
Rufina		5	1997	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Ruit		6.4	1997	Polynesian first name.	WGPSN
Runak		7.6	1997	Kurdian first name.	WGPSN
Ruslanova		44.3	1985	Lidiya Ruslanova, Soviet singer (1900–1973).	WGPSN
Ruth		18.5	1985	Hebrew first name.	WGPSN

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S

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Sabin		33.1	1994	Florence R. Sabin.	WGPSN
Sabira		15.7	1994	Tatar first name from Arabic.	WGPSN
Safarmo		7.4	1997	Tajik first name.	WGPSN
Saida		9.5	1997	Arabic first name.	WGPSN
Salika		12.5	1994	Mari first name.	WGPSN
Samantha		16.9	1994	Aramaic first name.	WGPSN
Samintang		25.9	1991	16th century Korean poet.	WGPSN
Sandel		17.9	1994	Cora Sandel, Norwegian author (1880–1974).	WGPSN
Sandi		12.6	1997	From Alexandra, Greek first name.	WGPSN
Sandugach		10	1997	Tartar first name.	WGPSN
Sanger		83.6	1994	Margaret Sanger, American medical researcher (1883–1966).	WGPSN
Sanija		18	1994	Tatar first name.	WGPSN
Saodat		3.7	2000	Uzbek first name from Arabic.	WGPSN
Sarah		18.5	1994	Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Sartika		18.7	1994	Dewi Sartika, Indonesian educator (1884–1942).	WGPSN
Sasha		4.6	1997	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Saskia		37.1	1991	Saskia van Uylenburgh, Rembrandt's wife.	WGPSN
Sayers		98	1994	Dorothy L. Sayers, English novelist, playwright.(1893–1957).	WGPSN
Sayligul		4.3	1997	Persian (Tajik) first name.	WGPSN
Scarpellini		27.1	1991	Caterina Scarpellini, 19th century Italian astronomer.	WGPSN
Seiko		3.4	2003	Japanese first name.	WGPSN
Selma		11.4	1985	Celtic first name.	WGPSN
Seseg		9.8	1997	Buryat (Siberia) first name.	WGPSN
Sévigné		29.6	1985	Marie Sévigné, French writer (1626–1696).	WGPSN
Seymour		63	1994	Jane Seymour, English queen (c. 1509–1537).	WGPSN
Shakira		17.6	1994	Bashkir first name.	WGPSN
Shasenem		9	1997	Turkman first name from Persian and Arabic.	WGPSN
Sheila		5.6	1997	Irish/Celtic first name.	WGPSN
Shih Mai-Yu		22.3	1994	Chinese physician (1873–1954).	WGPSN
Shirley		18	2000	English first name.	WGPSN
Shushan		8.5	1997	Armenian first name.	WGPSN
Sidney		20.2	1994	Mary Sidney, Elizabethan dramatist (1561–1621).	WGPSN
Sigrid		16.2	1985	Scandinavian first name.	WGPSN
Simbya		4	1997	Nganasan (Samoyed) first name.	WGPSN
Simonenko		31.9	1991	Alla Nikolaevna Simonenko, Soviet astronomer.	WGPSN
Sirani		28.3	1994	Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter, etcher, printmaker (1638–1665).	WGPSN
Sitwell		32.8	1994	Edith Sitwell, English poet, critic (1887–1964).	WGPSN
Solace		5.3	2000	Latin first name.	WGPSN
Sophia		17.6	1994	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Sovadi		12.4	2000	Khmer (Cambodian) first name.	WGPSN
Stanton		107	1994	Elizabeth C. Stanton, American suffragist (1815–1902).	WGPSN
Stefania		11.7	1985	Romanian first name.	WGPSN
Stein		13.3	1991	Gertrude Stein, American writer (1874–1946).	WGPSN
Steinbach		20.3	1994	Sabina von Steinbach, German sculptor (c. 1250).	WGPSN
Stina		10.4	1985	Swedish first name.	WGPSN
Storni		21.7	1994	Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (1892–1938).	WGPSN
Stowe		80	1994	Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist (1811–1896).	WGPSN
Stuart		68.6	1991	Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542–1587).	WGPSN
Suliko		14.9	1994	Georgian first name.	WGPSN
Sullivan		32	1994	Anne Sullivan, American teacher of Helen Keller (1866–1936).	WGPSN
Surija		15.3	1994	Azeri first name.	WGPSN
Susanna		13.3	1994	Hebrew first name.	WGPSN
Sveta		21	1991	Russian first name	WGPSN

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T

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Taglioni		31	1985	Marie Taglioni	WGPSN
Tahia		6.1	1997	Polynesian first name.	WGPSN
Taira		19.6	1994	Osset first name.	WGPSN
Tako		10.7	1997	Fulbe first name.	WGPSN
Talvikki		12.6	1997	Finnish first name.	WGPSN
Tamara		11	1985	Georgian first name.	WGPSN
Tanya		14	1994	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Tatyana		19	1985	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Taussig		25.8	1994	Helen Taussig, American pediatrician, heart researcher (1898–1986).	WGPSN
Tehina		5.4	1997	Polynesian first name.	WGPSN
Tekarohi		9.3	1997	Polynesian first name.	WGPSN
Temou		9.3	1997	Polynesian first name.	WGPSN
Teresa		14.8	1994	First name from Greek.	WGPSN
Terhi		10.7	1997	Finnish first name.	WGPSN
Teroro		9.2	1997	Polynesian first name.	WGPSN
Teumere		5.4	1997	Polynesian first name.	WGPSN
Teura		9.3	1997	Polynesian first name.	WGPSN
Thomas		25.2	1994	Martha Thomas, American college president (1857–1935).	WGPSN
Tiffany		7	1997	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Tinyl		12.8	1997	Chukcha (NE Siberia) first name.	WGPSN
Toklas		17.5	1994	Alice B. Toklas, American writer, art patron (1877–1967).	WGPSN
Tolgonay		4.6	1997	Kyrgyz first name.	WGPSN
Trollope		27.2	1994	Frances Trollope, English novelist (1780–1863).	WGPSN
Truth		47.3	1994	Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist (1797–1883).	WGPSN
Tseraskaya		30.3	1985	Lidiya Tseraskaya, Soviet astronomer (1855–1931).	WGPSN
Tsetsa		9.9	1997	Mordovian (Volga Finn) first name.	WGPSN
Tsiala		16.5	1994	Georgian first name.	WGPSN
Tsvetayeva		42.9	1985	Marina Tsvetayeva, Soviet poet (1892–1941).	WGPSN
Tsyrma		7.8	1997	Buryat (Siberia) first name.	WGPSN
Tubman		42.9	1994	Harriet Tubman, American abolishionist (1820–1913).	WGPSN
Tünde		16.3	1985	Hungarian first name.	WGPSN
Tursunoy		4.7	1997	Uzbek first name.	WGPSN
Tussaud		16	1994	Marie Tussaud, Swiss wax artist (1760–1850).	WGPSN
Tuyara		13.2	1997	Yakut first name	WGPSN

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U

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Ualinka		8.1	1997	Ossetian (N. Caucasus) first name	WGPSN
Udagan		11.5	1997	Yakut first name.	WGPSN
Udaltsova		26.7	1994	Nadezhda Udaltsova, Russian artist (1885–1961).	WGPSN
Udyaka		7.7	1997	Orochi (Amur River) first name.	WGPSN
Ugne		10.3	1997	Lithuanian first name.	WGPSN
Ulʼyana		12.5	1997	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Uleken		10.9	1997	Nanay (Amur River area, E. Siberia) first name.	WGPSN
Ulla		10.4	1997	Swedish first name.	WGPSN
Ulpu		7	1997	Finnish first name.	WGPSN
Ulrique		19.6	1985	French first name.	WGPSN
Uluk		10.3	1997	Neghidalian (Amur River area, E. Siberia) first name.	WGPSN
Umaima		6.9	1997	Arabic first name.	WGPSN
Umkana		6.2	1997	Eskimo (Chukotka) first name.	WGPSN
Unay		11.4	1997	Mari first name.	WGPSN
Undset		20	1985	Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author (1882–1949).	WGPSN
Unitkak		8	1997	Eskimo (Chukotka) first name.	WGPSN
Urazbike		7	1997	Tartar first name.	WGPSN
Ustinya		11.8	1997	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Uvaysi		38.9	1994	Jahonotin Uvaysiy, Uzbek poet (c. 1780-c. 1850).	WGPSN
Uyengimi		8.9	1997	Khanty, Mansi (Ob River Finn) first name.	WGPSN

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V

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Văcărescu		31.5	1994	Elena Văcărescu.	WGPSN
Vaka		11.8	1997	Bulgarian first name.	WGPSN
Valadon		25.2	1994	Suzanne Valadon, French painter (1865–1940).	WGPSN
Valborg		20	1985	Danish first name.	WGPSN
Valentina		24.6	1985	Latin first name.	WGPSN
Valerie		13.6	1997	French first name.	WGPSN
Vallija		15.2	1994	Latvian first name.	WGPSN
Vanessa		10	1997	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Vard		6.1	1997	Armenian first name.	WGPSN
Varya		14.3	1997	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Vashti		17	1994	Persian first name.	WGPSN
Vasilutsa		5.7	1997	Moldavian first name.	WGPSN
Vassi		8.5	1997	Karelian first name.	WGPSN
Veriko		5.2	1997	Georgian first name.	WGPSN
Veronica		17.9	1994	Latin first name.	WGPSN
Vesna		14.9	1994	Slavic first name.	WGPSN
Veta		6.4	1997	Romanian first name.	WGPSN
Vigée-Lebrun		57.8	1991	Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter (1755–1842). Spelling changed from Vigier Lebrun.	WGPSN
Viola		10	1997	English first name.	WGPSN
Virga		10.3	1997	Lithuanian first name.	WGPSN
Virginia		18.5	1994	Latin first name.	WGPSN
Virve		18	1994	Estonian first name.	WGPSN
Vlasta		10.7	1997	Czech first name.	WGPSN
Volkova		47.5	1985	Anna Volkova, Russian chemist (1800–1876).	WGPSN
Volyana		5.3	1997	Romani first name.	WGPSN
von Paradis		37.5	1994	Maria von Paradis, Austrian pianist (1759–1834).	WGPSN
von Schuurman		29.1	1994	Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch linguist, writer, artist (1607–1678).	WGPSN
Von Siebold		32.4	1991	Regina von Siebold, German physician, educator (1771–1849).	WGPSN
von Suttner		24	1994	Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist, pacifist (1843–1914).	WGPSN
Voynich		48.7	1985	Ethel Lilian Voynich	WGPSN

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W

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Wanda		21.7	1985	Polish first name.	WGPSN
Wang Zhenyi		23.4	1994	Wang Zhenyi, Chinese astronomer, geophysicist (1768–1797).	WGPSN
Warren		50.9	1994	Mercy Warren, American colonial poet, playwright, historian (1728–1814).	WGPSN
Wazata		13.9	1997	Hausa (Nigeria) first name.	WGPSN
Weil		24.2	1994	Simone Weil, French author (1909–1943).	WGPSN
Wen Shu		31.5	1994	Wen Shu, Chinese painter (1595–1634).	WGPSN
Wendla		5.7	1997	Swedish first name.	WGPSN
West		28.8	1994	Rebecca West, Irish novelist, critic, actress (1892–1983).	WGPSN
Wharton		50.5	1985	Edith Wharton, American writer (1862–1937).	WGPSN
Wheatley		74.8	1994	Phillis Wheatley, first black writer of note in America (1753–1784).	WGPSN
Whiting		35.7	1994	Sarah Whiting, American physicist, astronomer (1847–1927).	WGPSN
Whitney		42.5	1994	Mary Whitney, American astronomer (1847–1921).	WGPSN
Wieck		20.2	1994	Clara Wieck, German pianist, composer (1819–1896).	WGPSN
Wilder		35.1	1991	Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (1867–1957).	WGPSN
Willard		48.4	1994	Emma Willard, American educator (1787–1870).	WGPSN
Wilma		12.5	1997	English first name.	WGPSN
Winema		21.7	1994	Winema, Modoc Indian heroine, peacemaker (c. 1848–1932).	WGPSN
Winnemucca		30.3	1994	Sarah Winnemucca, Piute interpreter, activist (c. 1844–1891).	WGPSN
Wiwi-yokpa		4.5	1997	Abenaki/Algonquin (Canada) first name.	WGPSN
Wollstonecraft		44.1	1994	Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (1759–1797).	WGPSN
Woolf		24.5	1991	Virginia Woolf, British writer (1882–1941).	WGPSN
Workman		17.4	1994	Fanny Workman, American mountaineer, author (1859–1925).	WGPSN
Wu Hou		27.5	1994	Wu Hou, Chinese empress (c. 624–705).	WGPSN
Wynne		10	1997	English first name	WGPSN

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X

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Xantippe		40.4	1991	Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates.	WGPSN
Xenia		13.5	1997	Greek first name	WGPSN
Xi Wang		7.7	1997	Chinese first name	WGPSN
Xiao Hong		38.7	1991	Xiao Hong, Chinese novelist (1911–1942)	WGPSN
Ximena		12.8	1997	Portuguese first name	WGPSN

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Y

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Yablochkina		64.3	1985	Aleksandra Yablochkina, Soviet actress (1866–1964)	WGPSN
Yakyt		13.8	1997	Karakalpak first name.	WGPSN
Yale		18.5	1994	Caroline Yale, American educator of the deaf (1848–1933).	WGPSN
Yambika		6.5	1997	Mari (Volga Finn) first name.	WGPSN
Yasuko		10.6	1997	Japanese first name.	WGPSN
Yazruk		10.5	1997	Nivkhi (Amur River area, E. Siberia) first name.	WGPSN
Yelya		8.6	1997	Nenets (Samoyed) first name.	WGPSN
Yemysh		6	1997	Mari (Volga Finn) first name.	WGPSN
Yenlik		8.6	1997	Kazakh first name.	WGPSN
Yerguk		6.3	1997	Neghidalian (Amur River) first name.	WGPSN
Yeska		9.1	1997	Selkup (Samoyed) first name.	WGPSN
Yetta		9	1997	From Henrietta, German first name.	WGPSN
Yokhtik		11.4	1997	Nivkhi (Amur River area, E. Siberia) first name.	WGPSN
Yoko		5	1997	Japanese first name.	WGPSN
Yolanda		11.4	1997	Greek first name.	WGPSN
Yomile		13.6	1997	Bashkir first name.	WGPSN
Yonge		42.8	1994	Charlotte Mary Yonge, English writer (1823–1901).	WGPSN
Yonok		9.5	1997	Korean first name.	WGPSN
Yonsuk		8.5	1997	Korean first name.	WGPSN
Yoshioka		16.6	1994	Yayoi, Japanese physician, college founder (c. 1871–1959).	WGPSN
Ytunde		6.1	1997	Yoruba first name.	WGPSN
Yvette		10.6	1997	French first name	WGPSN
Yvonne		14.5	1994	French first name	WGPSN

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Z

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Zakiya		7.5	1997	Arabic first name	WGPSN
Zamudio		19	1994	Adela Zamudio, Bolivian poet (1854–1928).	WGPSN
Zarema		5	1997	Avarian (Daghestan) first name.	WGPSN
Zdravka		12.5	1985	Bulgarian first name.	WGPSN
Zeinab		12.5	1997	Persian first name from Arabic	WGPSN
Zemfira		11.4	1997	Romani first name.	WGPSN
Zenobia		39.1	1994	Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra (Syria) (3rd century AD).	WGPSN
Zerine		6.5	1997	Persian first name.	WGPSN
Zhilova		53	1985	Maria Zhilova, Russian astronomer (1870–1934).	WGPSN
Zhu Shuzhen		29.4	1991	Zhu Shuzhen, Chinese poet (1126–1200).	WGPSN
Zija		16.8	1994	Arabic first name.	WGPSN
Zina		9	1985	Romanian first name.	WGPSN
Živile		13.5	1997	Lithuanian first name.	WGPSN
Zlata		7	1985	Serbo-Croatian first name.	WGPSN
Zosia		10.5	1997	Polish first name.	WGPSN
Zoya		20	1985	Russian first name.	WGPSN
Zuhrah		5.8	1997	Arabic first name.	WGPSN
Zula		5	1997	Chechen first name.	WGPSN
Zulfiya		12.9	1997	Uzbek first name.	WGPSN
Zulma		11	1997	Spanish first name.	WGPSN
Zumrad		12.9	1997	Uzbek first name.	WGPSN
Zurka		5.5	1997	Romani first name.	WGPSN
Zvereva		22.9	1985	Lydia Zvereva, Russian aviator (1890–1916), also see 3322 Lidiya	WGPSN

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Dropped and not approved names

Crater	Coordinates	Diameter (km)	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref
Lorelei	–	243.9	1997	Dropped. German first name.	WGPSN

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See also

• List of montes on Venus
• List of coronae on Venus
• List of geological features on Venus

External links

• USGS: Venus nomenclature
• USGS: Venus Nomenclature: Craters