Female name
Luna
12,300 births (England and Wales, 1996–2025), peaking in 2021. Expression number: 3.
Origin
From Middle English lune, luna (“the moon”), from Latin lūna/Lūna, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂. Doublet of Lua and Roxane.From Wiktionary, entry “Luna”, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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How many babies received it
From the official birth registers.
In England and Wales
Peak in 2021: 1,261 births. 12,300 births from 1996 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2010s and 2020s. At its peak, it ranked 34th among girls' names in 2022. It really came into use around 2005. It is still given: 5,163 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, Open Government Licence v3.0.
In the United States
Peak in 2022: 8,992 births. 87,834 births from 1880 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2010s and 2020s. At its peak, it ranked 10th among girls' names in 2022. It really came into use around 1886. It is still given: 38,364 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, public domain.
In Ireland
Peak in 2025: 64 births. 562 births from 1964 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2020s. At its peak, it ranked 82nd among girls' names in 2025. It really came into use around 2017. It is still given: 290 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Central Statistics Office, Irish Babies' Names, CC BY 4.0.
Elsewhere in the world
The name in the birth records of the 10 countries we track. The period covered varies from country to country.
| Country | Births | Period | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 33,260 | 1900–2025 | 24th in 2022 |
| Argentina | 28,987 | 2012–2023 | 76th in 2022 |
| Switzerland | 3,037* | 1915–2025 | — |
| Austria | 1,377 | 1984–2025 | 65th in 2024 |
| Belgium | 1,282 | 2014–2023 | — |
| Berlin | 1,135 | 2012–2023 | 15th in 2023 |
| Quebec | 985 | 1980–2025 | 48th in 2022 |
* These are the people living in the country, counted by year of birth, not the number of births.
Source: INSEE, Fichier des prénoms, Etalab Open Licence 2.0; RENAPER, Nombres propios en Argentina, CC BY 4.0 (the registry doesn't record sex); Federal Statistical Office, First names of the population by year of birth, free use with attribution; Statistik Austria, Vornamen, CC BY 4.0; Statbel, first names of newborns, CC BY 4.0 (one total for the whole period, no yearly breakdown); Open Data Berlin, Häufige Vornamen, CC BY 3.0 DE (every name a child carries, not only the first); Retraite Québec, Banque de prénoms, CC BY 4.0.
The numbers of the name
Each letter has a value: A = 1, B = 2… I = 9, then J = 1 again (Pythagorean method). We add them up, then reduce to a single digit, except 11, 22 and 33.
■ vowel · ■ consonant
Expression
All the letters: talents, the way you act.
3
expression, creativity, sociability
3 + 3 + 5 + 1 = 12 → 3
Soul
The vowels: what drives you deep down.
4
work, structure, stability
3 + 1 = 4
Personality
The consonants: what others notice first.
8
power, achievement, your relationship with money
3 + 5 = 8
- Digits missing from the name
- 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9
- Most frequent digit
- 3 · expression, creativity, sociability
The meaning of the numbers comes from numerological tradition; it isn't a measure of your personality. A full portrait needs your first and middle names, your last name at birth, and your date of birth. How we calculate
Your name and theirs
The number of each name, and the number of the bond, which comes from adding them together. A symbolic game: what your two names say together, to be read as a metaphor, not as a verdict on your relationship.