Luan

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Luan is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: gegen Ende des 20. Jh.s aufgekommener männl.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 860◐
  • ECEcuador1 in 9.6K
  • PYParaguay1 in 29K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈257K ●

across 13 countries

#979 ●

of 16M given names

Sources
186 ●

113K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 679 ◐

Albania

Meaning & origin●

recorded in German

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●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Luan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#180246,250△99K rec.1 in 860246KLuan186
AR Argentina—9,9964.7K rec.—208Luan44
AL Albania—4,525—1 in 6794.5K——
US United States—2,7453.3K rec.1 in 121K2.7KLuan109
EC Ecuador—1,763△7 rec.1 in 9.6K1.8KLuan9
CL Chile—1,223274 rec.—28Luan28
PY Paraguay#8491,103767 rec.——Luan9
PE Peru—991269 rec.——Luan22
UY Uruguay#619888434 rec.——Luan19
FR France—8200 rec.1 in 83K820—1
MX Mexico—765446 rec.——Luan38
JP Japan—412261 rec.——Luan31

Roughly 246K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 860). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese2.7M86%
  • English278K9%
  • Vietnamese85K3%
  • Albanian21K1%
  • Spanish20K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese2,676,20386%
English277,8379%
Vietnamese85,2163%
Albanian21,0631%
Spanish19,8541%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Luan is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name299K records spelled Luan18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Luân, Lu-An, Luận, Luán, Luãn

  • a separate given name19K records spelled Luan23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, China

    Also written Luân, Luận, Luâṇ, Lűån, Luấn

  • Chinese given name14K records spelled Luan5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, Taiwan, United Kingdom

    Also written Lu-An, Luân, Lu'An, Luận

  • French given name7.3K records spelled Luan10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Luân, Lûan, Lüan, Luãn, Lúan

  • Malay given name6.7K records spelled Luan5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Singapore, Indonesia

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Luân, Luận

  • a separate given name5.0K records spelled Luan8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Luân, Luañ, Lūan, Lư̄an, Luãn

  • Macedonian given name1.3K records spelled Luan16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in North Macedonia, Poland, United States, Kosovo

    Languages: Macedonian, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Луан, Luân, Luận

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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.

Over time●

05010015020019401960198020002020

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Luan in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1926–2025
Yearrecords
19265
19309
19318
193211
193312
193413
193512
19366
19378
19386
19399
19406
194110
194215
19435
19445
194615
194710
194810
194911
19508
19519
195217
195321
195432
195531
195628
195721
195830
195917
196024
196115
196220
196314
19646
19659
19667
19675
19687
19698
19757
19768
19775
19785
198012
19817
198315
19845
198511
19869
19877
19888
19895
19909
199113
199210
19936
19949
199610
199715
19987
19998
200012
20017
20029
200312
200415
200514
200618
200718
20088
200911
201015
201124
201213
201316
201417
201520
201633
201733
201840
201952
202033
202160
202269
202390
2024111
2025166

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 88 years between 1926–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Luan Peters, b. 1946Jujie Luan, b. 1958Luan Jaha, b. 1960Luan Krasniqi, b. 1971Luan Madson Gedeão de Paiva, b. 1990Luan Santana, b. 1991Luan Vieira, b. 1993Luan Garcia Teixeira, b. 1993Luan Rodrigues Azambuja, b. 1996Luan Santos, b. 1999

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●

Attested in 83 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Luan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022246K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—244K#125
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—177K#286
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202021K—
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—4.5K#34
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—3.7K#144
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.7K#4,923
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.2K#125
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20241.8K#520
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020983#26,183
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020874#4,923
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024820#1,204

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 2026-09-12 data build · 631 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Luan?
We estimate roughly 257 thousand people bear Luan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Luan have the most bearers?
We estimate about 246 thousand people bear Luan in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, 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 Luan compared with other names?
In Brazil, Luan is the 180th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
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.
What does the name Luan mean?
Recorded meaning: gegen Ende des 20. Jh.s aufgekommener männl.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 180th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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