Lujan
A Spanish surname most often linked to the place name Luján in Argentina, and ultimately to a local place-name tradition rather than a descriptive word.
The #1,637 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 14,021 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Lujan is a Spanish surname that most likely began as a locational name, referring to someone from a place called Luján. The best-known such place is the Argentine city of Luján, whose name is usually traced to an earlier Spanish colonial place-name tradition. The deeper origin of the place-name is not entirely certain, so the surname should be understood as place-based rather than transparently meaningful in Spanish today.
History
The surname is especially common in Spanish-speaking communities and in the Americas, where it spread through migration from Spain and later through colonial and postcolonial movement within Latin America and into the United States. In New Mexico, Colorado, and other parts of the U.S. Southwest, Lujan is a familiar Hispanic surname. Because the name is tied to a place-name tradition, different family lines may not share a single original ancestor.
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Fun fact
Luján is also the name of a major pilgrimage city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, which helped make the surname and place name widely recognized.