Lucas

What Lucas means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Lucas yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #16 in 2015 to #10 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 170 US boys in the 2025 records Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Lucas?

US: Rising: up from #16 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #27 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2017, when 13,032 boys got the name (#11 that year). First in the US records in 1881.

How common

• About 1 in 167 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 197 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 150 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in RI (14.4 per 1,000 boys), NH (13.77 per 1,000 boys), DE (12.22 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Lucas is #10 in the US and #32 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9% of US babies named Lucas were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lukas1,161 US · 138 E&W
• Loukas39 US · 6 E&W
• Lucus11 US · 3 E&W
• Lukus12 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Lucas

Boys

• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Titus#358“honorable”^*
• Lucian#462Editor’s note Up from #633 in 2015 to #462 in 2025 in the US
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Cassius#582Editor’s note Up from #644 in 2015 to #582 in 2025 in the US
• Roman#42Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #42 in 2025

For a sister

• Arabella#213Editor’s note Steady in the US: #194 in 2015 and #213 in 2025
• Lucy#24“light”^*
• Harmony#276From the word “harmony”^*
• Stella#52“star”^*
• Lucille#237Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 7,989 babies; 1,314 in 2025
• Clara#63“bright, shining, clear”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Lucas’s. Rank is US 2025.