In 1831 the mountain was named Punta Cruvin by the topographer Maggi after a nearby mountain pastures, Alpe Cruvin. In the 1845 release of the Kingdom of Sardinia chart the mountain appears as Punta di Cruvin, while a toponym Punta Lunel (also derived by the name of a mountain pasture) was applied to a lesser summit between the present-day Punta Lunella (2,772 m) and the Grand'Uja (2,666 m). On the following editions of the national topographic map the name Lunella (in the forms of La Lunella or Punta Lunella) is permanently given to the 2,772 m mountain summit.