# Luna (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/luna/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | “the moon” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈluːnə/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Loona |
| US babies named this | 87,834 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 119 / 87,715 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 12,300, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Middle English lune, luna (“the moon”), from Latin lūna/Lūna, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂. Doublet of Lua and Roxane.

## What it means

Luna is grouped under moon.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,145 | 279 |
| 2012 | 1,414 | 225 |
| 2013 | 1,747 | 183 |
| 2014 | 2,341 | 142 |
| 2015 | 2,809 | 112 |
| 2016 | 3,688 | 77 |
| 2017 | 5,356 | 37 |
| 2018 | 6,937 | 23 |
| 2019 | 7,800 | 16 |
| 2020 | 7,850 | 14 |
| 2021 | 8,241 | 11 |
| 2022 | 8,977 | 10 |
| 2023 | 7,853 | 10 |
| 2024 | 7,164 | 13 |
| 2025 | 6,076 | 27 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1915 | 5 | 4,168 |
| 1919 | 5 | 4,551 |
| 2010 | 7 | 10,340 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13,291 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,280 |
| 2016 | 6 | 11,609 |
| 2017 | 8 | 9,379 |
| 2018 | 5 | 13,395 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8,617 |
| 2020 | 11 | 7,313 |
| 2021 | 11 | 7,408 |
| 2022 | 15 | 6,034 |
| 2023 | 9 | 8,660 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8,722 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,660 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 124 | 376 |
| 2012 | 144 | 337 |
| 2013 | 224 | 225 |
| 2014 | 380 | 146 |
| 2015 | 439 | 130 |
| 2016 | 715 | 78 |
| 2017 | 1,093 | 48 |
| 2018 | 1,162 | 43 |
| 2019 | 1,213 | 36 |
| 2020 | 1,216 | 36 |
| 2021 | 1,261 | 35 |
| 2022 | 1,174 | 34 |
| 2023 | 1,063 | 38 |
| 2024 | 908 | 48 |
| 2025 | 757 | 59 |

## People named Luna

- Luna Blaise, American actress and singer
- Luna Mijovic, Bosnian actress
- Luna Fokke, Dutch field hockey player
- Luna Star, Cuban pornographic actress
- Luna Schweiger, German child actress
- Luna Leopold, American geomorphologist and hydrologist (1915–2006)
- Luna Alcalay, Austrian pianist, educator and composer (1928–2012)
- Luna Nørgaard Gewitz, Danish association football player
- Luna Rival, French pornographic actress
- Luna Jordan, German film actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.