Lunetta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Lunetta, a pet form of luna ‘moon’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɫuˈnɛtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lunetta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 98K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 507K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 525K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- 1 in 98K (inferred from the name graph)
598 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Lunetta, a pet form of luna ‘moon’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lunetta 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 598 | 1 in 556K | 598 | Lunetta | 27 |
| BE Belgium | 120 | 1 in 98K | 120 | Lunetta | 12 |
| BR Brazil | 115 | 1 in 1.8M | 115 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 11 | 1 in 507K | 20 | — | — |
598 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Lunetta is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, lunette, fanlight
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, de Luna com sufixo feminino singular -etta
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Mario Lunettab. 1934ITItalian writer (1934-2017)
- Ignazio Lunettab. 1956Italian engineer
- Gabriel Lunettab. 1996ITItalian association football player
- Luca Lunettab. 2006ITItalian motorcycle racer
- Kathryn L. LunettaUSresearcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 598 | #37,288 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 579 | #36,463 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 527 | #44,004 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 120 | #13,399 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 115 | #57,034 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 16 | #43,070 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 11 | #44,079 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Lunetta mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Lunetta, a pet form of luna ‘moon’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lunetta?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫuˈnɛtə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lunetta have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 598 people named Lunetta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lunetta.
- Where is Lunetta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lunetta is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 98 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lunetta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 598 people named Lunetta in 2010, about 1 in 556 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lunetta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lunettaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Lunetta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.