Given name & surname

Lunella

Lunella is a feminine given name from Latin. It is used in Italian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Lunella comes from Latin.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Latin Lūna.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2019. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Lunella through the years

Babies since 1880
23
0 boys · 23 girls
Most popular year
2024
11 babies
2025
7
#12,660 for girls
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
024682025Highest share 20244.4
Lunella in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2019–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,660 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

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The ring: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Sibling ideas

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