# Luken (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/luken/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,557 |
| US rank (2010) | 17,951 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 198,295 people |
| Change since 2000 | +17% (1,337 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Luken in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 89% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.9% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 5.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Luken in the United States.

## People named Luken

- Tom Luken, American politician (1925-2018)

## Similar surnames

Loken, Lokken, Lucien, Lucena, Lawson, Logan, Lozano, Lujan, Luciano, Ligon, Lejeune, Laguna.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.