Lua
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A lightweight programming language with dynamic typing
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lwa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lua is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 92K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
- ESSpain1 in 1.4M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- 1 in 92K (inferred from the name graph)
3,624 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
moon
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lua is read(measured from records)
Lua is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish39%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lua in Spanish.
- English38%
A lightweight programming language with dynamic typing.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Roman goddess of plague or
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
defilement
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Portuguese5.9%
moon
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
moon (any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lua 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,624 | 1 in 92K | 3.6K | Lua | 128 |
| ES Spain | 35 | 1 in 1.4M | 3K | Lua | 58 |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | 2 |
| IN India | 7 | 1 in 189M | 7 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 105M | 5K | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 15 | — | — |
3,624 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Lua is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name from a place called Lira in Lugo province (Galicia). This name is common in Mexico.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Adriana Luab. 1980BRBrazilian singer
- Oscar Luab. 1984USAmerican football player
- Olivia Luab. 1994USAmerican pornographic actress (1994-2018)
- Linda LuaSGresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 65 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #9,023 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #9,088 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.5K | #11,547 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 35 | #57,212 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 35 | #56,582 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #144,331 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Lua mean?
- In English, A lightweight programming language with dynamic typing.
- How do you pronounce Lua?
- A machine transcription gives /lwa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Where does the name Lua come from?
- moon Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- In which country does Lua have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Lua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lua.
- Where is Lua most common?
- Lua is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 92 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lua?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,624 people named Lua in 2010, about 1 in 92 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/luaThe 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, “Lua”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.