Luna Surname Meaning & Origin (Spanish)

Meaning and formation

Luna can come from dialectal Aragonese luna, “lights”. This origin refers to residence beside an open courtyard. The painter Juan Luna won a gold medal in Madrid in 1884 for “Spoliarium”.

Dictionary pronunciation

• Spanish: /ˈluna/ · Wiktionary ↗

In the 1849 Catálogo transcription

The linked transcription records the following spelling and page position. Open the edition link to locate the printed page.

• luna · page 78 · column 6 · row 27 · Transcription ↗ · Digitized edition ↗

Public figures with this surname

Elected officials in the 2001 list

Luna has 15 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.

Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts

Related given-name entries

The given-name catalogue has separate entries with the same spelling. Each page explains its own given-name use and sources.

• Luna