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Lukas vs Lukasz

American parents have registered 44,072 Lukases since 1880, against 711 Lukaszes. Lukas is still ahead, with 1,161 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lukas against Lukasz, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lukas Lukasz

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Lukas has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1984, when Lukas had 126 and Lukasz had 8.

Side by side

  Lukas Lukasz
Total US births 44,072711
Most in one year 1,78728
Babies in 2025 1,16123
Estimated living today 43,000700
Median age today 1417
Peak year 20192007
Best rank 214th boys3,687th boys
Rank in 2025 288th4,396th
First recorded 19631981
Girls / boys 19 / 44,0530 / 711

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lukaszes alive today are over 17; half the Lukases are over 14. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Lukas Lukasz
Poland 66841,691 Ɓukasz
France 9,64590
Norway 5,0301,912
England and Wales 5,073359
Belgium 4,5046
Ireland 60168
Scotland 39824

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lukas and Lukasz.