Lùx
surname · Latin script
Lùx is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin lūx (“light”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”).
- DEGermany≈1 in 7K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 25K
- CZCzechia1 in 32K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 327 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lux in US United States, DE Germany, BE Belgium and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Latinlūx“light”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*lewk-“white; light; bright”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Latin lūx (“light”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Cognates include Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, blank, light, bright, clear”), Ancient Greek λύκη (lúkē, “light, morning twilight”), Sanskrit रोचते (rocate), Middle Persian 𐭩𐭥𐭬 (rōz, “day”) and Old English lēoht (noun) (English light).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lùx counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #586 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Lux | 159 |
| US United States | — | 5,796 | 1 in 57K | 6K | Lux | 327 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 321 | — | 7 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Lux | 21 |
| BR Brazil | — | 806 | 1 in 263K | 806 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 695 | 1 in 17K | 695 | Lux | 30 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 4 | Lux | 56 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 330 | 1 in 32K | 330 | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); MVČR — living population register 2017; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lùx mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin lūx (“light”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does Lùx have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Lùx in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lux.
- How common is the name Lùx?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,796 people named Lùx in 2010, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
- How common is Lùx compared with other names?
- In Germany, Lùx is the 586th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lùx” — the 586th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.