Lúa

given name · Latin script

Meaning: rice (with seed still in stalk)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/luə˦˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Lúa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 92K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
  • ESSpain1 in 1.4M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,624 people, 2010

Sources
25 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 92K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lua in US United States, IN India.

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)

rice (with seed still in stalk)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lúa 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 Lúa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,6241 in 92K3.6KLua25
ES Spain351 in 1.4M3KLúa11
IN India71 in 189M7Lua3
CH Switzerland71 in 1.2M7—3
PL Poland21 in 19M15——

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: 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); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Lúa is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Malaysia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lua, Luea, Luã, Lụa, Lùa

  • a separate name10 spellings in the group

    Also written Lua, Lửa, Lụa, Lừa, Lựa

20 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Lúa 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.

  • In Icelandic, indefinite accusative singular of lúi

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Malagasy, vomit, the matter ejected

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Galician, the Moon

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.

Reference works 2

  • 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 Lúa mean, and where does it come from?
rice (with seed still in stalk) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Lúa?
A machine transcription gives /luə˦˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
Is Lúa a male or female name?
Lúa is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Lúa have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Lúa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lua.
Where is Lúa most common?
Lúa is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 92 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Lúa?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,624 people named Lúa in 2010, about 1 in 92 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, “Lúa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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