Luke

What Luke means

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

Editor’s note Down from #28 in 2015 to #33 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 250 US boys in the 2025 records Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Luke?

US: Falling: down from #28 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #58 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2014, when 10,523 boys got the name (#28 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 246 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 716 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 285 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 HI (14.05 per 1,000 boys), WY (11.93 per 1,000 boys), VT (9.9 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Luke is #33 in the US and #131 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 Luke 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

• Lake72 US · 31 E&W
• Locke65 US
• Luc33 US · 3 E&W
• Layke14 US · 6 E&W
• Luck9 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.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Lk

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Luke

Boys

• Isaac#47“he laughs, he will laugh”^*
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Elijah#7“Yahweh is my god”^*
• Abraham#209“father of + multitude of”^*
• Simon#230“sixpence coin”^*
• Elisha#788Editor’s note Used for both: 85% of US babies named Elisha in 2025 were boys

For a sister

• Lydia#92“the region of Lydia”^*
• Sarai#424“master, chief”^*
• Eve#519Editor’s note Down from #470 in 2015 to #519 in 2025 in the US
• Anaiah#853Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1983, with 6 babies
• Azariah#630“Yah Has Helped”^*
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*

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