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The LUNA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 76,127 378 0.028 282
United States (1880 census) 1,099 5051 0.002 22
Change since 1880 +75028 +4673 +0.026 +260
Other Countries
Australia 89 15756 0.001 5
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LUNA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 22,427 136 0.066 662
Texas 19,775 121 0.095 948
Florida 3,442 724 0.022 215
Illinois 3,204 433 0.026 258
Arizona 3,060 210 0.060 596
Top States for LUNA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 19,775 121 0.095 948
New Mexico 1,565 121 0.086 860
California 22,427 136 0.066 662
Arizona 3,060 210 0.060 596
Nevada 963 257 0.048 482

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LUNA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LUNA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LUNA in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LUNA by picking someone at random in Texas than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LUNA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LUNA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the LUNA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LUNA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 533 0.7
Native American/Alaskan 442 0.58
Black/African American 282 0.37
White (Hispanic) 65,911 86.58
White (Caucasian) 7,445 9.78
Asian/Pacific 1,523 2

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LUNA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LUNA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of LUNA.

Similar names to LUNA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LUNA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LUNA

The following words are slight variants of LUNA that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.