Lunz

surname · Latin script

Meaning: 1. nickname for a careless or slovenly person, from Middle High German lunzen ‘to doze’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈɫənz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Lunz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 630K(measured from records)
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 153K
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 213K

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)

528 people, 2010

Sources
153 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 153K (inferred from the name graph)

Singapore, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Lunz: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Lunz
  1. Middle High Germanlunzen(measured from records)
  2. Lunzin(measured from records)

1. nickname for a careless or slovenly person, from Middle High German lunzen ‘to doze’. 2. habitational name from Lunz in Tyrol.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lunz 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 Lunz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—5281 in 630K559Lunz153
BR Brazil—4261 in 497K426—3
MY Malaysia—≈150 est.≈1 in 213K—Lunz3
IT Italy—≈93 est.≈1 in 673K—Lunz1
GB United Kingdom—≈53 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Lunz17
SG Singapore—≈41 est.≈1 in 153K—Lunz2
IE Ireland—≈16 est.≈1 in 315K—Lunz1
BB Barbados#379———Lunz1

528 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). 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)

Lunz is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Mexico

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Lünz

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written lÙnz

30 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)

Lunz 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 goh, lazy, idle

    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)

1850190019502000Abraham Moses Luncz, b. 1854Lazar Lunts, b. 1892Lev Lunts, b. 1901Daniil Luntz, b. 1912Kristina Lunz, b. 1989
  • Abraham Moses Lunczb. 1854LTnot in their usual nameJerusalem academic and journalist (1854–1918)
  • Lazar Luntsb. 1892RUnot in their usual nameSoviet jurist (1892-1979)
  • Lev Luntsb. 1901RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer (1901–1924)
  • Daniil Luntzb. 1912RUnot in their usual nameSoviet psychiatrist (1912-1977)
  • Kristina Lunzb. 1989DEGerman activist

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)

FormalDear Lunz,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Lunz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020559#41,891
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000552#37,835
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010528#41,234
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—426#19,641
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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

Where does the name Lunz come from?
1. nickname for a careless or slovenly person, from Middle High German lunzen ‘to doze’. 2. habitational name from Lunz in Tyrol. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Lunz?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɫənz/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Lunz mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. nickname for a careless or slovenly person, from Middle High German lunzen ‘to doze’.
In which country does Lunz have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 528 people named Lunz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lunz.
How common is the name Lunz?
In the United States, the national register counted 528 people named Lunz in 2010, about 1 in 630 thousand residents.
How common is Lunz compared with other names?
In Barbados, Lunz is the 379th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Lunz” — the 379th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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