Lucas

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Lucas boys named Lucas

By the numbers

Total US births

331,628

Estimated living today

324,000

Median age today

13

Peak year

2017

Best rank

11th

Rank in 2025

10th

First recorded

1881

Girls / boys

536 / 331,092

How old the living Lucases are

born that year still alive today

Of the 331,628 babies given the name since 1881, about 324,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 202,000 of them are children and 450 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Latin

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Lucass

• Lucas Vázquez (born 1991)Spanish association football player
• Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553)German painter and printmaker
• Lucas Hernandez (born 1996)French footballer
• Lucas Digne (born 1993)French footballer
• Lucas Neill (born 1978)Australian association football player
• Lucas Biglia (born 1986)Argentine association football player
• Lucas Moura (born 1992)Brazilian association football player
• Lucas Torreira (born 1996)Uruguayan footballer

People named Lucas with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Lucas is most common

• CA35,757
• NY23,481
• TX21,455
• FL20,855
• IL15,107
• OH13,647
• PA13,449
• MI12,558
• NJ9,940
• NC9,146

Relative to how many babies each state records, Lucas is most concentrated in Alaska (1.9×), Florida (1.8×), Nevada (1.8×), New Hampshire (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2017

The most popular boys’ names the year Lucas peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• William
• James
• Logan
• Benjamin

All the names of 2017

Lucas elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Lucas: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Lucas is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.60% of children were given it – 88 of them.

Lucas: rank by region

In 2025, Lucas was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium. It has come first somewhere in 6 different years.

In 2024, Lucas was among the 10 most common names in 10 regions of Spain. It has come first somewhere in 3 different years.

In 2017, Lucas was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Lucas was given 2 times or more in 4 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lucas appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (5th), Province of Antwerp (6th), Province of Flemish Brabant (7th), Province of West Flanders (11th), Province of Walloon Brabant (11th), Province of East Flanders (13th), Brussels-Capital Region (18th), Province of Liège (27th), Province of Luxembourg (27th), Province of Hainaut (29th) and Province of Namur (32nd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Lucas by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Lucas among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Lucas lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 66,041 men called Lucas were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Lucy
• Lucille
• Luca
• Lucia
• Lucinda
• Lucile
• Luciano
• Luciana
• Lucian
• Lucretia
• Lucius
• Lucien

Lucas against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Lucas vs Lucy
• Lucas vs Lucille
• Lucas vs Luca
• Lucas vs Lucia
• Lucas vs Lucinda
• Lucas vs Lucile

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