Lunar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lunar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 31K
- ESSpain1 in 64K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
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)
Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lunar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #581 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Lunar | 43 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Lunar | 27 |
| ES Spain | — | 785 | 1 in 64K | 785 | Lunar | 73 |
| US United States | — | 394 | 1 in 844K | 398 | Lunar | 79 |
| BR Brazil | — | 291 | 1 in 728K | 291 | Lunar | 27 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 172 | 1 in 12K | 172 | Lunar | 10 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 124K | 1 | Lunar | 21 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Lunar 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 cbk, mole
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, LUNÁR, -Ă, lunari, -e, adj. 1. Referitor la intervalul de timp de o lună (II); (și adv.) care se produce sau apare o dată pe lună; mensual. 2. (Rar) Propriu lunii (I), de lună, ca luna (de luminos, de feeric etc.).
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Rosario Lunar Hernándezb. 1950ESSpanish geologist
- Fernando Lunarb. 1977VEbaseball player
- Maja M Lunarb. 1982SIresearcher
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 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 785 | #5,481 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 785 | #5,479 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 398 | #55,632 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 394 | #52,619 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 291 | #27,099 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 239 | #75,219 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 172 | #2,572 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
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 Lunar mean, and where does it come from?
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Lunar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.4 thousand people named Lunar in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lunar.
- What are other forms of the name Lunar?
- In the etymology graph, Luna is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Lunar?
- In Spain, the national register counted 785 people named Lunar, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
- How common is Lunar compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Lunar is the 581st most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lunarThe 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, “Lunar” — the 581st most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.