Luke

At the 2020 census, 17,362 Americans bore the surname Luke — 2,036th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,200.

By the numbers

People: 17,362
Rank: 2,036th
How common: 1 in 17,200
Per 100,000: 5.8

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 Luke described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 69.4%
Black, not Hispanic 15.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Luke

Derek Luke (born 1974)American actor
Ned Luke (born 1958)American actor
Dr. Luke (born 1973)American songwriter and record producer
Keye Luke (1904–1991)American actor
Laidback Luke (born 1976)Dutch DJ and record producer
Theresa Luke (born 1967)Canadian rower

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

Surnames like Luke

Also a first name

Luke has been given to 323,585 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2014. 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.