Luana

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Луана in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Luana is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name422K records spelled Luana14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Germany, Ecuador

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Luaña, Lu-Ana, Lüana, Luáná

• Italian given name3.9K records spelled Luana4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, Peru

  Also written Luąną, Luàna, Lùànà

• a separate given name3.5K records spelled Luana3 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Luaña, Luãna

• Croatian given name2.5K records spelled Luana12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Italy, North Macedonia, United States

  Languages: Croatian, Czech, Macedonian

  Also written Луана, Lúáná

• Catalan given name1.3K records spelled Luana2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain

  Also written Luaña

48 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●

Luana is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Colei che si svaga

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• LOOREA

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• English and Italian: first used in King Vidor's 1932 film The Bird of Paradise as the name of a Polynesian maiden, and taken up since. It is apparently an arbitrary combination of the syllables Lu - and - ana . The Vidor film achieved considerable popularity in Italy under the title Luana , la vergine sacra , and the name is now also relatively common there. Variants: English: Luanna, Luanne .

  as a word

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 114 years between 1911–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Luana Waltersb. 1912USAmerican actress (1912-1963)
• Luana Pattenb. 1938USactress (1938-1996)
• Luana Andersb. 1938USAmerican actress (1938-1996)
• Luana Borgia‎b. 1967ITItalian pornographic actress
• Luana Piovanib. 1976BRBrazilian actress
• Luana Tanakab. 1989BRBrazilian actress
• Luana Carolinab. 1993BRBrazilian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
• Luana Pinheirob. 1993BRBrazilian mixed martial artist
• Luàna Bajramib. 2001FRFrench actress
• Countess Luana of Orange-Nassaub. 2005GBelder daughter of Prince Friso and Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 768 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Luana?

We estimate roughly 378 thousand people bear Luana (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Luana have the most bearers?

We estimate about 366 thousand people bear Luana in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled luana.

Where is Luana most common?

Luana is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 579 people carrying it.

How common is Luana compared with other names?

In Brazil, Luana is the 105th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Luana a male or female name?

Luana is a female 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 Luana mean?

Recorded meaning: A female given name originating as a coinage.