Luna · Daily fortune

Luna is a feminine name meaning "the moon". Behind the Name notes that the word means the moon in Latin as well as in Italian, Spanish and other Romance languages, and that Luna was the Roman goddess of the moon, frequently depicted driving a white chariot through the sky. It is used today in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English and Dutch. Wikipedia records that the name entered the American top 1,000 in 2003 and had climbed to #10 for girls born in 2022, attributing the rise partly to the Harry Potter series and to celebrity use. In 2025 it ranked #27 in the United States.

There is no ambiguity here and the two sources say the same thing. Behind the Name: Luna "Means 'the moon' in Latin (as well as Italian, Spanish and other Romance languages). Luna was the Roman goddess of the moon, frequently depicted driving a white chariot through the sky." Wikipedia: "The word lūna, which means Moon in Latin, is the origin of the given name Luna", adding that in Roman mythology Luna was the divine personification of the moon itself. Unlike most names, Luna needs no reconstructed root: the name and the common noun are the same word, still live in several modern Romance languages.

Luna's long history is mythological and its history as a personal name is short. Behind the Name records the Roman goddess of the moon, frequently depicted driving a white chariot through the sky, and lists the word's survival as an ordinary noun across the Romance languages, where the name is now used in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese as well as in English and Dutch. Wikipedia dates the modern American ascent precisely: the name entered the top 1,000 girls' names in 2003 and was the 10th most popular name for American girls born in 2022. It credits that rise to the name's use in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series and to celebrity use, and notes a broader fashion for girls' names beginning with or containing the letter L. Wikipedia also observes that Luna is exceptionally popular as a pet name, consistently the #1 or a top-5 cat name in several countries.

Luna ranked #27 for girls in the United States in 2025 (Social Security Administration). Wikipedia describes a steep recent climb: into the top 1,000 in 2003, and 10th for girls born in 2022 — so the 2025 rank sits below that peak. Behind the Name's usage list (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English, Dutch) suggests the name is popular well beyond the United States, but no non-US ranking series was fetched here.

Behind the Name gives English /ˈlu.nə/ and Dutch /ˈly.naː/. In the Romance languages the name is spelled identically to the everyday word for the moon; those pronunciations were not verified in this pass.

Luna is about as frictionless as a name gets: two syllables, five letters, one obvious meaning, and a pronunciation that survives intact across English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch. That cross-language portability is a real part of its appeal for bilingual families, and the celestial meaning puts it in the same shortlist as Nova, Stella, Aurora and Celeste. The one caution parents raise is its sheer ubiquity — including, per Wikipedia, as the most popular cat name in several countries.

Only bearers named in the two sources consulted for this profile are listed.

Names that share Luna's sky meaning, its two-syllable Latinate sound, or its cross-language portability.