How common is the surname Lucke?

1,489 people in the United States had the surname Lucke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 207,351 Americans. It ranked 18,529th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lucke?

In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Lucke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lucke getting more or less common?

About as common. 1,489 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,489 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Lucke

A surname, carried by 1,489 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex L200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lucke is more common than 88.6% of them.

Origin

From the German surname, variant of Luck.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,489 people named Lucke in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 207,351 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,489.

#18,529

rank among US surnames

1,489

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #17,457)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,523	Gillaspie	1,490	207,212
#18,529	Spady	1,489	207,351

Who is named Lucke

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

89% of people named Lucke identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 3.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.7%
Two or more races 2.1%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lucke

Lucke has the Soundex code L200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L200.

Questions

Where does the surname Lucke come from?: From the German surname, variant of Luck.
How common is the surname Lucke?: 1,489 people in the United States had the surname Lucke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 207,351 Americans. It ranked 18,529th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lucke?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Lucke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lucke getting more or less common?: About as common. 1,489 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,489 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.