Lumé

surname · Latin script

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

Lumé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: light, fire [EP].

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 743K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 771K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 2.4M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

285 people

Sources
75 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 743K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lume in FR France, US United States, PE Peru.

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)

light, fire [EP]

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lumé 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 Lumé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil2851 in 743K285——
AR Argentina591 in 771K59——
FR France≈28 est.≈1 in 2.4M18Lume75
IT Italy≈5 est.≈1 in 12M1—1
US United States——listedLume12
PE Peru———Lume4

285 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)

Lumé is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Portugal

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lume, Lúmé, Lumè

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Australia, South Africa

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lume, Lumè

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Lume

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tanzania, South Africa, United States, Kenya

    Also written Lume

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Peru

    Also written Lume, Lumè, Lume'

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Lume

  • Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, United States

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Lume

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lumé under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lumé mean, and where does it come from?
light, fire [EP] Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
In which country does Lumé have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 285 people named Lumé, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Lumé most common?
Lumé is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 743 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Lumé?
In Brazil, the national register counted 285 people named Lumé, about 1 in 743 thousand residents.

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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, “Lumé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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