Name

Name LUMA

Between 1880 and 2022 there were 10,500 births of Luma in the countries below, which represents an average of 74 births of children bearing the first name Luma per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 22 births.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom Luma
In Italiano

Nome Luma

Information about the first name Luma

The first name Luma has been assigned to:

0.40% to boys
99.60% to girls

The country where the first name Luma is the most common is:

Brazil

This first name is on trend: Female

This first name has 4 letters including 2 vowels and 2 consonants

Anagrams of the first name Luma

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of Luma : Alum, Luam, Malu, Malú, Ulma, Umal

Luma in Japanese ^*

Romaji	rama
Katakana	ラマ
Hiragana	らま
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Luma in binary language

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Origin and meaning of name Luma

English

Etymology

From Armenian լումա (luma). Doublet of nummus.

Etymology

luminance

Etymology (Noun)

luma (plural lumas or luma)
(numismatics) A currency unit of Armenia, worth one hundredth of an Armenian dram.

Etymology (Noun)

luma (uncountable)
The brightness in an image, as opposed to the saturation or chroma.

Anagrams

Lamu, alum, malu, maul, mula

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈluma/
Hyphenation: lu‧ma

Proper noun

Luma (plural Lumas)
A surname.

Proper noun (Statistics)

According to the 2010 United States Census, Luma is the 37691st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 590 individuals. Luma is most common among Black/African American (50.17%), White (33.73%) and Hispanic/Latino (12.03%) individuals.

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse luma (“to keep closely, hold tight”). Perhaps akin to Danish lomme (“pocket”).

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈlʏːma/
Rhymes: -ʏːma

Verb

luma (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative lumaði, supine lumað)
Used only in set phrases.

Verb (Derived terms)

luma á (“to keep something secretly; to have something up one's sleeve”)

Esperanto

Adjective

luma (accusative singular luman, plural lumaj, accusative plural lumajn)
light, bright

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈluma/
Hyphenation: lu‧ma

Adjective (Antonyms)

malluma

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain; proposed derivations include:
From a root common to Latvian lustes (“cheat grass”), Swedish losta (“cheat grass”) and Ancient Greek λάχνη (lákhnē, “woolly hair”).
From Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“bend, twist”). Cognates include Latin luctor (“I wrestle”), luxus (“dislocated”), Ancient Greek λύγος (lúgos, “twig, withe”) and Old Norse lok (“weed, unwanted plant”).

Noun

lūma f (genitive lūmae); first declension
A thorn

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA(key): /ˈluː.ma/, [ˈɫ̪uːmä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.ma/, [ˈluːmä]

Noun (Declension)

First-declension noun.

Noun (Derived terms)

lūmārius
lūmectum

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-dʊ́ma.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /lûːma/

Verb

-lûma
(transitive and intransitive) to bite

Popularity of the name Luma

Number of LUMA births per year

Popularity of the name Luma

Total births of Luma by country

		Births with the first name Luma
Country		Boys Girls
	Brazil 1930 - 2022	40 10,200
	France 1900 - 2022	0 141
	Switzerland 1909 - 2021	0 26
	Argentina 1922 - 2015	0 22
	Germany 2000 - 2022	0 17
	Italy 1999 - 2021	1 16
	Denmark 1985 - 2022	0 9
	Quebec 1980 - 2022	1 7
	Sweden 1998 - 2022	0 6
	United State of America 1880 - 2022	0 5
	Alberta 1980 - 2022	0 4
	Austria 1984 - 2021	0 2
	Portugal 2014 - 2022	0 2
	Czechoslovakia 1900 - 2016	0 1