Luján

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/luxan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Luján is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uruguay than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from Lujan in Huesca province.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.9M(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 6K
  • ESSpain1 in 98K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Uruguay (measured from records)

561 people

Sources
362 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lujan in US United States, ES Spain.

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)

habitational name from Lujan in Huesca province.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Luján 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.

Where Luján is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UY Uruguay5611 in 6K1.5K——
ES Spain5091 in 98K7.8KLujan57
US United States1151 in 2.9M22KLujan362
BR Brazil881 in 2.4M884—2
SE Sweden111 in 928K11—6
GY Guyana11 in 750K1—1

561 people counted by INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Luján is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Lujàn, Lujan, Lúján, Luj́an

  • Indonesian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Paraguay, Spain, Argentina

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Lujan, Lújan, Lujàn

  • Spanish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi

    Also written Lujan

  • Catalan given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina

    Also written Lujan

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

14001600180020002200Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, b. 1510Abelardo L. Rodríguez, b. 1889Néstor Luján, b. 1922Fernando Luján, b. 1939Gabriel Silva Luján, b. 1957Jorge Gabrich, b. 1963Ben Ray Luján, b. 1972María Carolina Luján, b. 1985Luisa María Alcalde, b. 1987Gonzalo Luján, b. 2001

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Luján,Hi Luján, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Luján mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from Lujan in Huesca province. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Luján?
A machine transcription gives /luxan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Luján a male or female name?
Luján is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Luján have the most bearers?
In Uruguay, the national register counted about 561 people named Luján, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Luján most common?
Luján is densest in Uruguay, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.0 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Luján?
In Uruguay, the national register counted 561 people named Luján, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/luj%C3%A1n

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

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, “Luján”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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