Luca

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Luca boys named Luca

By the numbers

Total US births

79,211

Estimated living today

79,000

Median age today

4

Peak year

2025

Best rank

14th

Rank in 2025

14th

First recorded

1915

Girls / boys

1,690 / 77,521

How old the living Lucas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 79,211 babies given the name since 1915, about 79,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 72,000 of them are children and 7 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2021 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Lucas

• Luca Pacioli (1440–1517)Italian father of accounting (*~1445 – †1517)
• Luca Toni (born 1977)Italian association football player
• Luca Signorelli (1450–1523)Italian Renaissance painter (c.1450-1523)
• Ion Luca Caragiale (1852–1912)Romanian playwright, writer and poet
• Luca Guadagnino (born 1971)Italian filmmaker
• Luca Zidane (born 1998)French-Algerian footballer
• Luca della Robbia (1399–1482)Italian sculptor
• Luca Giordano (1632–1705)Italian Baroque painter

People named Luca with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Luca is most common

• CA11,891
• NY7,713
• TX6,032
• FL5,876
• PA4,058
• NJ3,724
• IL3,159
• OH2,542
• MA2,453
• NC1,900

Relative to how many babies each state records, Luca is most concentrated in Nevada (2.5×), Florida (2.2×), Connecticut (2.0×), New Jersey (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Luca peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• Theodore
• Henry
• James

All the names of 2025

Luca elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Luca: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Luca is most concentrated in Uri, where 1.01% of children were given it – 82 of them.

Luca: rank by region

In 2025, Luca was given 5 times or more in 4 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Luca was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

In 2024, Luca was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy. It has come first somewhere in 2 different years.

In 2025, Luca was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.

In 2011, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Luca appears in the lists for Nord-est (10th).

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Luca appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (9th), Brussels-Capital Region (12th), Province of Limburg (12th), Province of Antwerp (13th), Province of Flemish Brabant (19th), Province of West Flanders (26th), Province of Walloon Brabant (31st), Province of Luxembourg (37th), Province of Liège (63rd), Province of Hainaut (67th) and Province of Antwerp (204th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Luca by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Luca among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Luca lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 16,743 men called Luca were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 51 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 1 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Lucas
• Lucy
• Lucille
• Lucia
• Lucinda
• Lucile
• Luciano
• Luciana
• Lucian
• Lucretia
• Lucius
• Lucien

Luca against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Luca vs Lucas
• Luca vs Lucy
• Luca vs Lucille
• Luca vs Lucia
• Luca vs Lucinda
• Luca vs Lucile

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