Lunis

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Plg. Lunia, Lunis, Lunius < Lunius (žr.)

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

Lunis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 2.2M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

8 people

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

recorded in Lithuanian

Plg. Lunia, Lunis, Lunius < Lunius (žr.). Kilmė neaiški. Ryšys su liet. lūnius „žioplys, ištižėlis“ (LKŽ VII 687) dėl lun- : lūn- kelia ir abejonių. Plg. lenk. Lun (SSNO UI 346), brus. Лунь, Лун (M. Бирыла, 1969, c. 258), rus. Л уня: Лука (А. Толкачев, 1977, c. 124)

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lunis 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.

Where Lunis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands81 in 2.2M8——
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——
MX Mexico———Lunis6
CO Colombia———Lunis6
VE Venezuela———Lunis4

8 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Lunis is also recorded as 2 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 Lūnīs

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Belarus

    Also written Лунис

23 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)

Lunis is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, dative/ablative plural of lūna

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In gmw-pro, linchpin

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ext, Monday

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Skolēns, kas labi mācās

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Lempis; tūļa; sliņķis

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Lunis
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—8#32,545
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—8#20,463
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251#593

Reference works 2

  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

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 Lunis mean?
Recorded meaning: Plg. Lunia, Lunis, Lunius < Lunius (žr.).
Is Lunis a male or female name?
Lunis is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Lunis have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 8 people named Lunis, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Lunis most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lunis is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lunis?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 8 people named Lunis, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.

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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, “Lunis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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