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The Earth's moon is called Luna. That is where we get the terms lunar eclipse, lunar landing, etc.     ANSWER:   The name of the moon is simply Moon. As ans â¦ wered above, the word Luna is latin for the word moon. Now that we no longer, or have never spoke Latin, we call it the moon.
Native tribes that settled in what is now the United States created nicknames for each month's full moon to help them keep track of the seasons, according to the Farmer's Almanac. For June, the tribes referred to the full moon as the strawberry moon because June was the prime month for strawberries to be harvested.