Names of Luxembourg LU
STATEC Luxembourg — newborn first names 2024 (top-5, with counts) records Emma as the commonest given name in Luxembourg; the names that most distinguish Luxembourg from the rest of the world are Romain, Gilles and Jean-Paul.
Written in Luxembourgish, French, German.
- Population
- 628K
- Official registers
- 3
- Name forms recorded
- 789
At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.
How names work in Luxembourg
4 naming traditions are in use in Luxembourg, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.
The most common names in Luxembourg
Where the two lists disagree
6 of STATEC Luxembourg — newborn first names 2024 (top-5, with counts)'s top 6 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.
The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.
Characteristic of Luxembourg
Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Luxembourg holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.
Scripts & spelling
Countries whose names look alike
Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.
Registers & sources
Official registers
STATEC (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques du Luxembourg) counts newborns: 6 given-name forms for 2024. Last verified 2026-06-09.
Centre des technologies de l'information de l'Etat (CTIE) counts newborns: 54 given-name forms for 2020, licence CC0. Last verified 2026-05-19.
- Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es)not a population count
surnam.es (third-party) counts residents: 100 surname forms. Last verified 2026-06-05.
Cited works
Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.
- Naming Laws in Germanyofficial
- Baby Naming Laws in Germanyweb
- German honorificsencyclopaedia
- German nameencyclopaedia
- New naming law as of 1 May 2025web
- Origins and Meanings of German Last Namesgenealogy
- Rhaeto-Romance languagesencyclopaedia
- Romansh peopleencyclopaedia
- Romansh surnamesgenealogy
- Use of academic degreesweb
- Use of academic titlesweb
About this data
Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.
Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.
Questions
- What is the most common given name in Luxembourg?
- Emma, according to STATEC Luxembourg — newborn first names 2024 (top-5, with counts) (2024), with 43 bearers recorded among girls.
- Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Luxembourg?
- Because they count different people. STATEC Luxembourg — newborn first names 2024 (top-5, with counts) (2024) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Emma. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Romain. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
- Is there one naming system in Luxembourg?
- No — 4 are described on this page (Luxembourgish, German, Romansh, French), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Luxembourg”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/LU (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from STATEC Luxembourg — newborn first names 2024 (top-5, with counts).