Lunna
Lunna was given to 33 girls in 2025, #4,311 among girls’ names; 428 Americans have been recorded with it since 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lunna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lunna?
#4,311 among girls’ names, 2025
Lunna rose from #7,839 in 2015 to #4,311 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 20.5 per million.
44 babies in 2022, the peak
Lunna peaked in 2022, when 44 girls were given it, #3,573 among girls’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,311 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,840 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,090 | 22.4 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,573 | 26.8 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,291 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,502 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,906 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,515 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,978 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,415 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,839 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,770 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,852 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,472 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,009 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,200 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,188 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,958 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,916 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,307 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,457 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,294 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lunna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lunna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lunna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lunna, and how old are they?
An estimated 425 Americans named Lunna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 213 people named Lunna (213 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 230 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Lunna?
Lunna is a less common spelling of Luna: SSA has recorded 428 Lunna and 87,834 Luna since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 104,168 babies since 1880, Lunna is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 6,252 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lunna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lunna and names like it
- Compare Lunna and LunaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLunna peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lunna since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Lunna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lunna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.