# Lukas (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lukas/  
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 | Latin |
| Meaning | “a man from lucania” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 44,072 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 44,053 / 19 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 5,073, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Lucas (“a man from Lucania”).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 9 | 11,253 |
| 2007 | 5 | 19,349 |
| 2009 | 5 | 19,046 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,388 | 249 |
| 2012 | 1,543 | 232 |
| 2013 | 1,492 | 242 |
| 2014 | 1,635 | 229 |
| 2015 | 1,430 | 253 |
| 2016 | 1,758 | 221 |
| 2017 | 1,743 | 220 |
| 2018 | 1,652 | 231 |
| 2019 | 1,787 | 214 |
| 2020 | 1,711 | 218 |
| 2021 | 1,673 | 227 |
| 2022 | 1,475 | 236 |
| 2023 | 1,481 | 236 |
| 2024 | 1,289 | 269 |
| 2025 | 1,161 | 288 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 246 | 210 |
| 2012 | 295 | 189 |
| 2013 | 291 | 192 |
| 2014 | 249 | 226 |
| 2015 | 227 | 240 |
| 2016 | 279 | 201 |
| 2017 | 239 | 224 |
| 2018 | 259 | 210 |
| 2019 | 235 | 217 |
| 2020 | 207 | 234 |
| 2021 | 188 | 249 |
| 2022 | 194 | 244 |
| 2023 | 170 | 275 |
| 2024 | 144 | 311 |
| 2025 | 138 | 321 |

## People named Lukas

- Lukas Podolski, German association football player (born 1985)
- Lukas Hradecky, Finnish footballer
- Lukas Klostermann, German association football player
- Lukáš Krpálek, Czech judoka
- Lukas Lerager, Danish association football player (born 1993)
- Lukas Haas, American actor
- Lukáš Rosol, Czech tennis player
- Lukas Hinterseer, Austrian footballer
- Lukas Nmecha, German association football player
- Lukas Dhont, Belgian director and screenwriter
- Lukas Weißhaidinger, Austrian athlete
- Lukáš Provod, Czech association football player

## 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.