Lunel

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Littré mentionne le lunel comme un « vin muscat sucré, ainsi dit de la ville de Lunel (Hérault) »

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lunel is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
175 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in French

Littré mentionne le lunel comme un « vin muscat sucré, ainsi dit de la ville de Lunel (Hérault) ».

Sources 1

  • 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lunel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Lunel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—164Lunel175
NL Netherlands—20—6
ES Spain—8—1
BE Belgium—2—4
GA Gabon—1——

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)

Lunel is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Luñel

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Lünel

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Lünel

29 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)

Lunel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A type of sweet muscat wine.

    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)

180018501900195020002050Godefroy Lunel, b. 1814Adolphe Benestor Lunel, b. 1822Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel, b. 1960Gérard Lunel, b. 1960Emmanuel Lunel, b. 1973Romane Lunel, b. 2004

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 10 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Lunel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961229—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951216—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931212—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971210—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941180—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921180—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991164—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1911149—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901145—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981136—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)189198—
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200720#49,460

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Lunel mean?
Recorded meaning: Littré mentionne le lunel comme un « vin muscat sucré, ainsi dit de la ville de Lunel (Hérault) ».
In which country does Lunel have the most bearers?
Lunel is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled lunel.

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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, “Lunel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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