Lungan
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lungan is a surname, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- PHPhilippines1 in 241K◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 2.7M
- BEBelgium1 in 3.2M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈497 ◐
- Sources
- 12 ●
- 1 in 241K ◐
across 7 countries
990 records
Official registry-verified
Philippines
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈453 | 807 rec. | 1 in 241K | — | Lungan | 6 |
| DE Germany | ≈13 | 18 rec. | 1 in 6.2M | — | Lungan | 11 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈12 | 27 rec. | 1 in 2.7M | — | Lungan | 4 |
| US United States | ≈7 | 71 rec. | 1 in 45M | — | Lungan | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4 | 15 rec. | 1 in 15M | — | Lungan | 6 |
| BE Belgium | ≈4 | 4 rec. | 1 in 3.2M | 4 | Lungan | 5 |
| AU Australia | ≈4 | 10 rec. | 1 in 6.7M | — | Lungan | 9 |
| ES Spain | — | — | — | 21 | — | — |
Roughly 453 people in Philippines bear this name (about 1 in 241K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English89883%
- Spanish555%
- Romanian232%
- German222%
- Malay212%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 898 | 83% |
| Spanish | 55 | 5% |
| Romanian | 23 | 2% |
| German | 22 | 2% |
| Malay | 21 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Mihai Lunganb. 1978ROassociation football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21 | #83,209 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21 | #80,648 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #112,511 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 3 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Lungan?
- We estimate roughly 497 people bear Lungan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Lungan have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 453 people bear Lungan in the Philippines, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled lungan.
- Where is Lungan most common?
- Lungan is densest in the Philippines, where we estimate about 1 in 241 thousand people carry it.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lungan”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.