Lukas

What Lukas means

Means “a man from Lucania”

Borrowed from Latin Lucas (“a man from Lucania”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Lukas” (revision 93542211), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Lukas?

US: Falling: down from #253 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #240 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2019, when 1,787 boys got the name (#214 that year). First in the US records in 1963.

How common

• About 1 in 1,471 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,971 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,182 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 AK (3.08 per 1,000 boys), HI (2.06 per 1,000 boys), NH (1.78 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Lukas is #288 in the US and #321 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 Lukas were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lucas10,219 US · 1,381 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 Lukas

Boys

• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Magnus#763“great”^*
• Titus#358“honorable”^*
• Lucian#462Editor’s note Up from #633 in 2015 to #462 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Harmony#276From the word “harmony”^*
• Arabella#213Editor’s note Steady in the US: #194 in 2015 and #213 in 2025
• Lilliana#445Editor’s note Down from #270 in 2015 to #445 in 2025 in the US
• Livia#819Editor’s note Down from #724 in 2015 to #819 in 2025 in the US
• Lilianna#890Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1980, with 6 babies
• Natalia#144“birthday (of the Lord)”^*

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 Lukas’s. Rank is US 2025.