Luna
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: ish name, a topographic name for someone who lived by an open courtyard, from the Aragonese dial, term luna (L lumina, pi
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/luna/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Luna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common surname.
- ARArgentina1 in 339(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 710
- PEPeru≈1 in 767
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- #350 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 461 (measured from records)
- 1 in 339 (inferred from the name graph)
134,287 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
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)
Zaire: a people who speak a Bantu language; also Spanish/English 'moon' and a female name meaning moon.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Luna is read(measured from records)
Luna is one spelling over 2 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.
- Spanish73%
ish name, a topographic name for someone who lived by an open courtyard, from the Aragonese dial, term luna (L lumina, pi. of lumen light); in part it may be a habitation name from a place so called in the province of Saragossa in Aragon. As a Jewish name, its origin is not clear. Lunak Czech: nickname meaning ‘Hawk’.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
moon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English16%
A luna moth: a member of species Actias luna.
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)
Luna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #37 | 134,287 | 1 in 339 | 134K | Luna | 151 |
| US United States | #955 | 104,518 | 1 in 3.2K | 106K | Luna | 461 |
| PH Philippines | #123 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Luna | 117 |
| PE Peru | #116 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 767 | — | Luna | 120 |
| BR Brazil | #282 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 71K | Luna | 166 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 22,051 | 1 in 767 | 22K | Luna | 79 |
| SV El Salvador | #128 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 710 | — | Luna | 57 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 5,426 | 1 in 940 | 5.4K | — | 72 |
134,287 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Luna is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Zaire: a people who speak a Bantu language; also Spanish/English 'moon' and a female name meaning moon.
as a nameAfrican Names
from the female personal name Luna (Spanish luna ‘moon’).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Spanish; habitational name from places called Luna in Zaragoza, Araba, and Lleon provinces.
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)
- Juan Luna y Noviciob. 1857PHFilipino painter, sculptor and political activist (1857-1899)
- Félix Lunab. 1925ARArgentine writer, lyricist and historian (1925–2009)
- Bigas Lunab. 1946ESSpanish cineast (1946–2013)
- Genaro García Lunab. 1968MXMexican politician
- Mauricio Pellegrinob. 1971ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football manager (born 1971)
- Wisinb. 1978USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican singer
- Diego Lunab. 1979MXMexican actor (1979-)
- Gabriel Lunab. 1982USAmerican actor
- Adrianna Lunab. 1984USpornographic performer (b. 1985)
- Cristian Gamboab. 1989CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
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 134 sources across 63 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 134K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 106K | #289 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 105K | #298 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 76K | #378 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 22K | #195 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5.4K | #239 |
Reference works 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Luna mean?
- In Spanish, ish name, a topographic name for someone who lived by an open courtyard, from the Aragonese dial, term luna (L lumina, pi.
- Where does the name Luna come from?
- Zaire: a people who speak a Bantu language; also Spanish/English 'moon' and a female name meaning moon. Recorded by African Names.
- In which country does Luna have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 134 thousand people named Luna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luna.
- Where is Luna most common?
- Luna is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 339 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Luna?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 134,287 people named Luna, about 1 in 339 residents.
- How common is Luna compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Luna is the 37th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Luna?
- A machine transcription gives /luna/ (IPA) for Spanish.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lunaThe 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, “Luna” — the 37th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.