Lucas

At the 2020 census, 102,949 Americans bore the surname Lucas — 299th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,903.

By the numbers

People: 102,949
Rank: 299th
How common: 1 in 2,903
Per 100,000: 34.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lucas described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 65.8%
Black, not Hispanic 18.1%
Hispanic or Latino 9.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Lucas

George Lucas (born 1944)American filmmaker and philanthropist
Robert Lucas (1937–2023)American economist
Josh Lucas (born 1971)American actor
Isabel Lucas (born 1985)Australian actress and model
Jerry Lucas (born 1940)American basketball player
Matt Lucas (born 1974)British actor, comedian and screenwriter
Édouard Lucas (1842–1891)French mathematician
Jessica Lucas (born 1985)Canadian actress

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

Surnames like Lucas

Also a first name

Lucas has been given to 331,628 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 2017. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.