Luana
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Luana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A female given name originating as a coinage.
- BRBrazil1 in 579(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1K
- UYUruguay≈1 in 1.4K
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 252 (measured from records)
- 1 in 579 (inferred from the name graph)
365,729 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A female given name originating as a coinage.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Luana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #120 | 365,729 | 1 in 579 | 366K | Luana | 209 |
| IT Italy | #546 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 23 | Luana | 146 |
| AR Argentina | #486 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 875 | Luana | 77 |
| PY Paraguay | #181 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Luana | 29 |
| US United States | — | 4,363 | 1 in 76K | 4.4K | Luana | 252 |
| PT Portugal | #249 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | listed | Luana | 64 |
| UY Uruguay | #124 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Luana | 39 |
365,729 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register. 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)
Luana is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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English and Italian: first used in King Vidor's 1932 film The Bird of Paradise as the name of a Polynesian maiden, and taken up since. It is apparently an arbitrary combination of the syllables Lu - and - ana . The Vidor film achieved considerable popularity in Italy under the title Luana , la vergine sacra , and the name is now also relatively common there. Variants: English: Luanna, Luanne .
as a word
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Luana Waltersb. 1912USAmerican actress (1912-1963)
- Luana Pattenb. 1938USactress (1938-1996)
- Luana Andersb. 1938USAmerican actress (1938-1996)
- Luana Borgiab. 1967ITItalian pornographic actress
- Luana Piovanib. 1976BRBrazilian actress
- Luana Tanakab. 1989BRBrazilian actress
- Luana Carolinab. 1993BRBrazilian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
- Luana Pinheirob. 1993BRBrazilian mixed martial artist
- Luàna Bajramib. 2001FRFrench actress
- Countess Luana of Orange-Nassaub. 2005GBelder daughter of Prince Friso and Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 87 sources across 51 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 366K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 364K | #74 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 356K | #123 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 9K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.4K | #4,332 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.8K | #74 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 875 | #165 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 324 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 324 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 110 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 23 | #534 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8 | #4,332 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Luana mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name originating as a coinage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Luana have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 366 thousand people named Luana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luana.
- Where is Luana most common?
- Luana is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 579 people carrying it.
- Is Luana a male or female name?
- Luana 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.
- What are other forms of the name Luana?
- In the etymology graph, Luann, Luanne and Luanna are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Luana?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 365,729 people named Luana in 2022, about 1 in 579 residents.
- How common is Luana compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Luana is the 120th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Luana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/luanaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Luana” — the 120th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.