Luka

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Luka boys named Luka

By the numbers

Total US births

29,522

Estimated living today

29,000

Median age today

4

Peak year

2025

Best rank

85th

Rank in 2025

85th

First recorded

1975

Girls / boys

563 / 28,959

How old the living Lukas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 29,522 babies given the name since 1975, about 29,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 28,000 of them are children and 0 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 Slavic languages

From the common Slavic (, etc) male given name Luka and from mk, ru, uk Лука́, all cognates of English Luke and Lucas.

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

Notable Lukas

• Luka Dončić (born 1999)Slovenian basketball player
• Luka Jović (born 1997)Serbian association football player
• Luka Milivojević (born 1991)Serbian association football player
• Luka Sučić (born 2002)Croatian association football player
• Luka Vušković (born 2007)Croatian association football player
• Luka Romero (born 2004)Argentine-Spanish-Mexican association football player
• Luka Karabatic (born 1988)French handball player
• Luka Mkheidze (born 1996)French judoka of Georgian origin

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

Where Luka is most common

• CA4,366
• TX3,817
• FL1,955
• NY1,656
• IL1,358
• OH1,038
• PA838
• NC720
• MI707
• WA703

Relative to how many babies each state records, Luka is most concentrated in Nevada (2.9×), Florida (2.0×), Arizona (1.9×), Texas (1.8×).

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

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Luka peaked:

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

All the names of 2025

Luka 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.

Luka: 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, Luka is most concentrated in Zug, where 0.23% of children were given it – 62 of them.

Luka: rank by region

In 2025, Luka was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

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

In 2025, Luka was given 2 times or more in 10 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Luka appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (52nd), Province of Antwerp (127th) and Province of West Flanders (178th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain 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.

Luka by city

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

Luka 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 – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – 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 Luka lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 4,678 men called Luka 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 48 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 4 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

• Luke
• Lukas
• Lukus
• Lukah
• Lukasz

Luka against another name

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

• Luka vs Luke
• Luka vs Lukas
• Luka vs Lukus
• Luka vs Lukah
• Luka vs Lukasz

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