The Luna surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 76,127 people carried this name — #378 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 3,540 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
272 people named Luna live in Switzerland.
They live in 15 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 198 people named Luna.
89 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 27 départements, most often Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 20 people named Luna live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Luna in American newspapers,
1899–1959.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 296,963 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Luna,
with a public archive behind them.
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Álvaro de Luna, Constable of Castile 1390–1453 · poet -
Rita Luna 1770–1832 · actor -
Octavio Luna 1831–1870 · military personnel -
Tranquilino Luna 1849–1892 · politician -
Lucas Luna Olmos 1850–1914 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 203 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Luna.
- Lukas 4,175 · U.S. census
- Lukasik 1,615 · U.S. census
- Lukaszewski 604 · U.S. census
- Lukic 455 · U.S. census
- Lukowiak 139 · U.S. census
- Lumia 369 · U.S. census
- Lunardi 306 · U.S. census
- Lundy 14,158 · U.S. census
- Luneau 380 · U.S. census
- Lunetta 579 · U.S. census
- Lung 7,263 · U.S. census
- Luong 11,214 · U.S. census
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