Lunaria
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- loo-NAIR-ee-ah
- Origin
- Latin
- US rank, 2025
- #5,409 for girls
Lunaria is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “moon-like”. In 2025 it ranked 5,409th for girls in the US (23 babies).
What does Lunaria mean?
Latin: botanical name of the honesty plant, from Latin luna 'moon'
“moon-like”
Lunaria, or honesty, is a flowering plant named for its round, silvery, moon-like seed pods.
Is Lunaria a girl's or a boy's name?
Lunaria is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 23 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lunaria in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 23 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 840% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 23 girls in the US were named Lunaria, making it the 5,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. It first appears in the records in 2020.
2025 had the most girls named Lunaria of any year since it first appeared, in 2020.
Half of all the girls named Lunaria in the US since 1880 were born between 2022 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
Lunaria in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,409 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,639 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
Nicknames for Lunaria
- Luna 809 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Lunaria
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Octavia, Rosalia, Julia, Lucia, Cordelia, Aurelia, Cecilia, Louisa, Lola, Magnolia, Lucianna, Xaria
Names related to Lunaria
More Latin names
Oliver, Olivia, Leo, Roman, Aurora, Emily, Florence, Mabel, Luna, Nora, Rosie, Emilia, Max, Nova, Lucy, Julian
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Lunaria: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lunaria, updated 20 October 2026.