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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.
Other names for this moon are the Wine Moon, the Elk Call Moon and the Singing Moon. It received the name of harvest moon because it appears in the Northern Hemisphere at the time of the year that coincides with the harvesting of crops.