Given name & surname
Louna
“happy”
Louna is a feminine given name from Hawaiian. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Louna goes back to Hawaiian Louna, meaning “happy.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2012. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Louna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 162
- 0 boys · 162 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 35 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,649 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −57%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,649 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 57.1% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 35 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 332 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Louna’s family of names
In Greek usage, Louna as a surname is a transliteration of Λούνα.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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