Luan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Luan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: gegen Ende des 20. Jh.s aufgekommener männl.
- BRBrazil1 in 860(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 13K
- USUnited States1 in 92K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- 1 in 679 (inferred from the name graph)
246,250 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
gegen Ende des 20. Jh.s aufgekommener männl. Vom., am ehesten männliche Bil dung zu
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Luan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
246,250 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Luan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sit-pro, plait, braid
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Chinese, nonstandard spelling of luán
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, Monday
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tet, width
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, lion
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Luan Petersb. 1946GBBritish actress (1946–2017)
- Jujie Luanb. 1958CNfencer
- Luan Jahab. 1960XKKosovan actor
- Luan Krasniqib. 1971DEGerman boxer
- Luan Madson Gedeão de Paivab. 1990BRBrazilian association football player
- Luan Santanab. 1991BRBrazilian singer-songwriter (born 1991)
- Luan Vieirab. 1993BRBrazilian footballer
- Luan Garcia Teixeirab. 1993BRBrazilian footballer
- Luan Rodrigues Azambujab. 1996BRBrazilian association football player
- Luan Santosb. 1999BRBrazilian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 84 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 246K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 244K | #125 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 177K | #286 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 21K | — |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 4.5K | #34 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 3.7K | #144 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.7K | #4,923 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.2K | #125 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.8K | #520 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 874 | #4,923 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 166 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 146 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Luan mean?
- Recorded meaning: gegen Ende des 20. Jh.s aufgekommener männl.
- Is Luan a male or female name?
- Luan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Luan have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 246 thousand people named Luan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luan.
- Where is Luan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Luan is densest in Albania — about 1 in 679 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Luan?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 246,250 people named Luan in 2022, about 1 in 860 residents.
- How common is Luan compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Luan is the 221st most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/luanThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Luan” — the 221st most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.