Luna
From Latin luna, "the moon". It's a newcomer in Poland: barely given before the 2020s, and still rare enough that most Poles have never met one.
Luna Pronunciation
Luna is pronounced LOO-nah (/ˈluna/).
What Luna means
Where Luna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Luna comes straight from Latin, where the word luna meant the moon and nothing more. Polish keeps the same object under a different word, księżyc, so the name arrives already translated in the sky if not on the page. The origin is that plain.
The Romans gave the moon a divine face and called her Luna, a goddess with her own temple on the Aventine Hill. She was the moon made into a person, driving a chariot across the night while her brother Sol handled the day. So the name has stood for a real deity and for the pale disc itself.
On a Polish class register today, Luna sits among older names without much fuss, short enough for a five-year-old to write. It has no name-day fixed by long custom and no set of Polish diminutives waiting for it, which leaves the bearer holding one clean word. That word still means the moon, księżyc.
How many people are named Luna
1 in 29939 women in Poland is named Luna. 753 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1082 among female names.
Luna's popularity over time
67 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #300 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2005.
Where parents choose Luna
Luna is most popular in Masovian, 55% above the national average (98 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+50%) and Pomeranian (+33%). It is least common in Lublin and Opole, 78% and 76% below average respectively.
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Masovian
+55%1 in 3,615 babies
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Lower Silesian
+50%1 in 3,741 babies
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Pomeranian
+33%1 in 4,209 babies
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Lublin
−78%1 in 25,669 babies
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Opole
−76%1 in 23,048 babies
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Subcarpathian
−49%1 in 10,960 babies
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Masovian+55% 98 born1 in 3,615 babies+55%
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Lower Silesian+50% 42 born1 in 3,741 babies+50%
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Pomeranian+33% 35 born1 in 4,209 babies+33%
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Silesian+18% 48 born1 in 4,741 babies+18%
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Warmian-Masurian+1% 13 born1 in 5,523 babies+1%
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Greater Poland−1% 38 born1 in 5,664 babies−1%
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Łódź−3% 22 born1 in 5,760 babies−3%
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Lesser Poland−9% 37 born1 in 6,133 babies−9%
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Lubusz−10% 8 born1 in 6,207 babies−10%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−13% 17 born1 in 6,434 babies−13%
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West Pomeranian−27% 11 born1 in 7,675 babies−27%
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Subcarpathian−49% 11 born1 in 10,960 babies−49%
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Opole−76% 2 born1 in 23,048 babies−76%
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Lublin−78% 4 born1 in 25,669 babies−78%
Luna as a middle name
Luna is a first name for 753 women in Poland and a middle name for another 310, a 71/29 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 386th, between Valentina (311) and Katherine (306).