Lunger
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from German Lunge ‘lungs’ + the agent suffix -er, most likely one of the surnames selected at random from vocabulary words by government officials at the time when surnames became compulsory
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lʌŋə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lunger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 305K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 2.1M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
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
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 305K (inferred from the name graph)
1,091 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
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)
from German Lunge ‘lungs’ + the agent suffix -er, most likely one of the surnames selected at random from vocabulary words by government officials at the time when surnames became compulsory.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lunger 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 | 1,091 | 1 in 305K | 1.3K | Lunger | 63 |
| BR Brazil | 23 | 1 in 9.2M | 23 | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Lunger | 26 |
| CZ Czechia | 5 | 1 in 2.1M | 5 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | Lunger | 6 |
1,091 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Lunger 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 English, A person who lunges.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of lunge
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)
- Brett Lungerb. 1945USAmerican racing driver
- Hansjörg Lungerb. 1964ITItalian ski mountaineer
- Tamara Lungerb. 1986ITItalian ski mountaineer
- Arnold LungerITluger
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 12 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,050 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,934 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,333 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23 | #177,962 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5 | #114,355 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 5 | #21,046 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Lunger mean, and where does it come from?
- from German Lunge ‘lungs’ + the agent suffix -er, most likely one of the surnames selected at random from vocabulary words by government officials at the time when surnames became compulsory. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lunger?
- A machine transcription gives /lʌŋə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lunger have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Lunger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lunger.
- Where is Lunger most common?
- Lunger is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 305 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lunger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,091 people named Lunger in 2010, about 1 in 305 thousand 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/lungerThe 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, “Lunger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.