Luana
A Latin name meaning "happy" or "content". It stays rare in Poland: only about 115 women and girls carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Luana Pronunciation
Luana is pronounced loo-AH-nah (/luˈana/).
What Luana means
Where Luana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Luana comes from Latin, and the meaning fixed to it in English is happy, contentment. In Italy it settled in as a woman's name during the twentieth century, carried without a diminutive and without a masculine form. It stays short and stays whole.
Part of its reach came from film. Dolores del Río played a heroine named Luana in King Vidor's Bird of Paradise, released in 1932. Audiences who had never heard the name met it from a cinema seat, and it began to travel.
The Latin root points toward gladness, which is why Polish name guides gloss Luana as szczęśliwy, wesoły. Picture the name read from a class register in Gdańsk, one girl among the Zuzannas and Ninas. It belongs there now, a short word for being happy.
How many people are named Luana
1 in 196033 women in Poland is named Luana. 115 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3159 among female names.
Luana's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where parents choose Luana
Luana is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Masovian
+510%1 in 177,133 babies
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Masovian+510% 2 born1 in 177,133 babies+510%
Luana as a middle name
Luana is a first name for 115 women in Poland and a middle name for another 34, a 77/23 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1196th, between Lida (34) and Lyn (34).
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#1194 Ignacja34
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#1195 Lida34
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#1196 Luana34
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#1197 Lyn34
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#1198 Magali34