Lún

given name · Latin script

Meaning: to subside

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

Lún is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 30K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 176K
  • SESweden1 in 193K

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.

United States (measured from records)

739 people, 2020

Sources
19 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lun in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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)

to subside

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lún 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 Lún is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7391 in 450K1.6KLun19
NL Netherlands981 in 176K89Lun6
SI Slovenia691 in 30K81—1
SE Sweden531 in 193K53—1
BR Brazil241 in 8.8M81—1
HR Croatia121 in 352K20—1

739 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021). 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)

Lún is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name56 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, China

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Лонг, Лун, Lon, Lung, Лон

  • Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

    Also written Lun

  • English given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan

    Languages: English, Chinese, Korean

    Also written Lun, Luñ, Lùn, L̸u̸n̸, Lủn

  • Spanish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Colombia, Chile

    Also written Lun, Luñ, Lùn, Ľůņ, Lưn

3 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)

Lún 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 Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 仑

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

  • In Slovak, genitive plural of luna

    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)

0500100015002000Cai Lun, b. 48Sima Lun, b. 240Yuela, b. 1262Hu Lun, b. 1412Yang Lun, b. 1747Stephen Fung, b. 1974
  • Cai Lunb. 48CNChinese official credited with inventing paper (died 121)
  • Sima Lunb. 240Prince of Zhao and Jin dynasty usurper (died 301)
  • Yuelab. 1262not in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 114434
  • Hu Lunb. 1412politician
  • Yang Lunb. 1747Qing dynasty politician
  • Stephen Fungb. 1974CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor, singer and filmmaker (born 1974)
  • Hu LunMing dynasty person CBDB = 292865
  • Chang LunMing dynasty person CBDB = 131100
  • Zhang LunMing dynasty person CBDB = 130480
  • Zhang LunMing dynasty person CBDB = 66599

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lún under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lún mean, and where does it come from?
to subside Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Lún a male or female name?
Lún 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 Lún have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 739 people named Lún, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lun.
Where is Lún most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lún is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 30 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lún?
In the United States, the national register counted 739 people named Lún in 2020, about 1 in 450 thousand 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, “Lún”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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