How common is the surname Lukens?

3,151 people in the United States had the surname Lukens in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,983 Americans. It ranked 10,232nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lukens?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lukens identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lukens getting more or less common?

More common. 3,103 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,151 in 2010, up 1.5%.

The surname Lukens

A surname, carried by 3,151 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L252

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lukens is more common than 93.7% of them.

Origin

Altered spelling of Dutch Luikens or German Lückens.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,151 people named Lukens in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 97,983 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,103.

#10,232

rank among US surnames

3,151

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+1.5%

change since 2000 (was #9,614)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,224	Michelson	3,153	97,921
#10,228	Trammel	3,152	97,952
#10,232	Lukens	3,151	97,983
#10,233	Edington	3,150	98,014
#10,234	Livermore	3,149	98,046
#10,237	Gruver	3,148	98,077

Who is named Lukens

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

95% of people named Lukens identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
Two or more races 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

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Surnames that sound like Lukens

Likens

Lukens has the Soundex code L252, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L252.

Questions

Where does the surname Lukens come from?: Altered spelling of Dutch Luikens or German Lückens.
How common is the surname Lukens?: 3,151 people in the United States had the surname Lukens in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,983 Americans. It ranked 10,232nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lukens?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lukens identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lukens getting more or less common?: More common. 3,103 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,151 in 2010, up 1.5%.