Lunel
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Littré mentionne le lunel comme un « vin muscat sucré, ainsi dit de la ville de Lunel (Hérault) »
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Lunel is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 175 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Littré mentionne le lunel comme un « vin muscat sucré, ainsi dit de la ville de Lunel (Hérault) ».
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 164 | Lunel | 175 |
| 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 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)- Godefroy Lunelb. 1814FRSwiss zoologist
- Adolphe Benestor Lunelb. 1822FRFrench physician (1822-1864)
- Sjoerd Verduyn Lunelb. 1960NLuniversity teacher at Leiden University
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
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.
What do you want to know about Lunel?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lunelThe 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, “Lunel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.