# Luka (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/luka/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Macedonian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 29,522 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 28,959 / 563 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3,602, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From the common Slavic (Macedonian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Ukrainian, etc) male given name Luka and from Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian Лука́ (Luká), all cognates of English Luke and Lucas.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 5,652 |
| 2012 | 20 | 6,492 |
| 2013 | 25 | 5,418 |
| 2014 | 16 | 7,513 |
| 2015 | 33 | 4,359 |
| 2016 | 28 | 4,932 |
| 2017 | 31 | 4,544 |
| 2018 | 28 | 4,842 |
| 2019 | 20 | 6,100 |
| 2020 | 30 | 4,503 |
| 2021 | 32 | 4,375 |
| 2022 | 24 | 5,412 |
| 2023 | 24 | 5,327 |
| 2024 | 18 | 6,554 |
| 2025 | 25 | 5,174 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 303 | 748 |
| 2012 | 375 | 638 |
| 2013 | 433 | 586 |
| 2014 | 494 | 560 |
| 2015 | 550 | 524 |
| 2016 | 649 | 471 |
| 2017 | 707 | 440 |
| 2018 | 1,049 | 321 |
| 2019 | 1,704 | 221 |
| 2020 | 2,344 | 161 |
| 2021 | 3,209 | 115 |
| 2022 | 3,303 | 117 |
| 2023 | 3,657 | 95 |
| 2024 | 3,708 | 94 |
| 2025 | 3,873 | 85 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 20 | 1,489 |
| 2012 | 14 | 1,991 |
| 2013 | 23 | 1,400 |
| 2014 | 22 | 1,411 |
| 2015 | 13 | 2,070 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1,920 |
| 2017 | 21 | 1,512 |
| 2018 | 18 | 1,649 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,643 |
| 2020 | 11 | 2,300 |
| 2021 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,533 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,927 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,843 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,705 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 130 | 333 |
| 2012 | 130 | 339 |
| 2013 | 110 | 369 |
| 2014 | 135 | 334 |
| 2015 | 132 | 348 |
| 2016 | 131 | 357 |
| 2017 | 130 | 359 |
| 2018 | 129 | 355 |
| 2019 | 162 | 301 |
| 2020 | 150 | 305 |
| 2021 | 138 | 330 |
| 2022 | 204 | 237 |
| 2023 | 195 | 244 |
| 2024 | 209 | 233 |
| 2025 | 177 | 261 |

## People named Luka

- Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer (born 1985)
- Luka Sučić, Croatian association football player
- Luka Vušković, Croatian association football player
- Luka Romero, Argentine-Spanish-Mexican association football player
- Luka Karabatic, French handball player
- Luka Mkheidze, French judoka of Georgian origin
- Luka Magnotta, Canadian murderer, model and pornographic actor
- Luka Peruzović, Croatian footballer
- Luka Šulić, Croatian-Slovenian cellist
- Luka Loczoszwili, Georgian association football player
- Luka Garza, American-Bosnian basketball player
- Luka Lipošinović, Croatian footballer (1933-1992)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.