Names of Luxembourg LU

STATEC Luxembourg — newborn first names 2024 (top-5, with counts) records Emma as the commonest given name in Luxembourg; the names that most distinguish Luxembourg from the rest of the world are Schmit, Weber and Wagner.

Written in Luxembourgish, French, German.

Population
628K
Official registers
3
Name forms recorded
619
BBuilt from 3 official registers (2024), 619 name forms in our corpus, 11 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

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Where the names most characteristic of Luxembourg are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Luxembourg included.

How names work in Luxembourg

4 naming traditions are in use in Luxembourg, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Luxembourg

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 2
STATEC Luxembourg — newborn first names 2024 (top-5, with counts), 2024 — 6 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Emma43—
2Olivia33—
3Charlotte32—
4Chloé26—
4Mia26—
5Eva23—

Where the two lists disagree

6 of STATEC Luxembourg — newborn first names 2024 (top-5, with counts)'s top 6 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

STATEC Luxembourg — newborn first names 2024 (top-5, with counts) 2024Across all recordsemma: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. emmanot rankedolivia: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. olivianot rankedcharlotte: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. charlottenot rankedchloé: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. chloénot rankedmia: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. mianot rankedeva: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. evanot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
STATEC Luxembourg — newborn first names 2024 (top-5, with counts), 2024 on the left; every record we hold for Luxembourg on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Luxembourg

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Luxembourg holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

France
Sized by how much of the difference between Luxembourg's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

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Schmitsurname●
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Webersurname●
Wagnersurname●
The best-attested names in Luxembourg, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • STATEC Luxembourg — newborn first names 2024 (top-5, with counts)2024headline (given)

    STATEC (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques du Luxembourg). Counts: residents. given. 6 forms. 2024. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    "La démographie luxembourgeoise en chiffres" Tableau 7: top-5 newborn first names by sex 2024 WITH COUNTS (spelling variants counted separately). LUSTAT SDMX confirmed to have NO first-name dataflow; data is only in this annual PDF. ADDITIONALLY CHECKED 2026-08-06: re-confirmed LUSTAT (lustat.statec.lu) still exposes no prenom/given-name dataflow -- population/demography tables are age-sex-nationality pivots only. Also checked guichet.public.lu / MyGuichet.lu (CTIE-run) for a live per-name existence check distinct from the static RNPP-derived CSV: the RNPP section (guichet.public.lu/fr/citoyens/citoyennete/registre-national.html) offers only 'Consultation', 'Validation & Rectification' and 'Identification' sub-procedures for accessing or correcting ONE'S OWN personal RNPP record (GDPR-style self-service extract/rectification, explicitly your own data, not a population search), and the separate 'Nom, Prenom & Sexe' page covers the legal name-change procedure, not a search tool. No live per-name population oracle exists on any CTIE/Guichet property; the STATEC annual PDF remains the only source with counts.

    Last verified 2026-06-09.

  • data.public.lu — Prénoms les plus donnés au Luxembourg (RNPP)2020

    Centre des technologies de l'information de l'Etat (CTIE). Counts: not recorded. given. 54 forms. 2020. Licence: CC0.

    What we know about this register

    Open-data portal release sourced from Registre National des Personnes Physiques (RNPP), maintained by CTIE. Columns: PRENOM, SEXE — top-N per year by descending official frequency (no count column published). Only the 2020 snapshot (103 rows, Latin-1 encoded) is currently posted; the dataset description states annual update. Same physical file as lu-statec-prenoms but ingested under data.public.lu provenance with CC0 licence and CTIE as publisher.

    Last verified 2026-05-19.

  • Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es)not a population count

    surnam.es (third-party). Counts: not recorded. surname. 100 forms.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-backfilled registry stub (2026-06-05); verify publisher/URL. 100 rows, name_types=['surname'], evidence=['count']. source note: surnam_es_top100

    Last verified 2026-06-05.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Luxembourg?
Emma, according to STATEC Luxembourg — newborn first names 2024 (top-5, with counts) (2024), with 43 bearers recorded among girls.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Luxembourg?
Because they count different people. STATEC Luxembourg — newborn first names 2024 (top-5, with counts) (2024) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Emma. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Milton. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Luxembourg?
No — 4 are described on this page (Luxembourgish, German, Romansh, French), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Luxembourg”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/LU (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from STATEC Luxembourg — newborn first names 2024 (top-5, with counts).