Lunan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A coastal hamlet in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO6851)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lunən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lunan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1M
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M
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
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
192 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A coastal hamlet in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO6851).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lunan 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 | 192 | 1 in 1.7M | 236 | Lunan | 31 |
| CR Costa Rica | 5 | 1 in 1M | 5 | Lunan | 4 |
| CO Colombia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 19M | — | Lunan | 4 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Lunan | 6 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Lunan | 10 |
192 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Lunan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Esperanto, accusative singular of luna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, grammatical place
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)
- John Lunanb. 1771botanist (1771-1839)
- Thomas Melville Lunanb. 1878GBScottish architect, born 1878
- Daniel Lunanb. 1984GBEnglish footballer (born 1984)
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 236 | #85,336 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 212 | #82,691 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 192 | #95,115 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5 | #8,060 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #181 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Lunan mean, and where does it come from?
- A coastal hamlet in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO6851). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Lunan?
- A machine transcription gives /lunən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lunan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 192 people named Lunan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lunan.
- Where is Lunan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lunan is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lunan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 192 people named Lunan in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lunanThe 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, “Lunan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.