Lun
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lun is a given name, most frequently recorded in Hong Kong, where it is the 42nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Chinese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: nonstandard spelling of lūn.
- HKHong Kong1 in 926◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 26K
- TWTaiwan1 in 37K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈653 ●
- Sources
- 176 ●
- 1 in 30K ◐
across 9 countries
37K records
Official registry-verified
Slovenia
Meaning & origin●
nonstandard spelling of lūn
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HK Hong Kong | #42 | 4,018 | 3.2K rec. | — | — | Lun | 73 |
| TW Taiwan | — | 2,664 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Lun | 97 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 2,456 | 3K rec. | — | — | Lun | 45 |
| AU Australia | — | 2,217 | 2.9K rec. | — | 1 | Lun | 84 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,317 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Lun | 48 |
| CN China | — | 943 | 542 rec. | — | listed | Lun | 63 |
| CA Canada | — | 567 | 875 rec. | — | — | Lun | 56 |
| US United States | — | 395 | 21K rec. | 1 in 842K | 1.6K | Lun | 176 |
| SG Singapore | — | 247 | 405 rec. | — | — | Lun | 44 |
| DE Germany | — | 186 | 300 rec. | — | 1 | Lun | 39 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 89 | 280 rec. | 1 in 194K | 89 | Lun | 18 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 69△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 30K | 81 | — | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English17K31%
- Chinese14K25%
- Khmer6.4K12%
- Malay3.8K7%
- Vietnamese3.5K6%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 17,044 | 31% |
| Chinese | 13,713 | 25% |
| Khmer | 6,384 | 12% |
| Malay | 3,840 | 7% |
| Vietnamese | 3,534 | 6% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Lun 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 English, Alternative form of lown.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wuu, Perish
as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Wheel
as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In Norwegian Nynorsk, cosy, snug, sheltered (house, room, valley etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Lunda.
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 14 |
| 2010 | 18 |
| 2011 | 20 |
| 2012 | 24 |
| 2013 | 27 |
| 2014 | 27 |
| 2015 | 28 |
| 2016 | 29 |
| 2017 | 29 |
| 2018 | 35 |
| 2019 | 40 |
| 2020 | 41 |
| 2021 | 44 |
| 2022 | 46 |
| 2023 | 48 |
| 2024 | 53 |
| 2025 | 69 |
SI SURS — resident population given names — 18 years between 2008–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Cai Lunb. 48CNChinese official credited with inventing paper (died 121)
- Sima Lunb. 240Prince of Zhao and Jin dynasty usurper (died 301)
- Murong Linb. 350not in their usual nameChinese general and prince
- Ma Linb. 1180CNnot in their usual nameChinese artist (1180-1256)
- Yuelab. 1262not in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 114434
- Tian Linb. 1628not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 73222
- Roger Leeb. 1920USnot in their usual nameAmerican architect (1920–1981)
- Peter Kee Lin Ngb. 1960SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean freshwater field biologist
- Stephen Fungb. 1974CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor, singer and filmmaker (born 1974)
- Wu Linnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 327296
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 44 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 112 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Lun?
- We estimate roughly 653 people bear Lun (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Lun have the most bearers?
- Lun is most frequently recorded in Hong Kong, where it is most often spelled lun.
- How common is Lun compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Lun is the 42nd most common given name of 19,389 given names recorded there.
- Is Lun a male or female name?
- Lun 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 Lun mean?
- Recorded meaning: nonstandard spelling of lūn
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About this data
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, “Lun” — the 42nd most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.