Lukas
Lukas is a boy's name that peaked in 2019, when it was the 214th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 288th. About 43,000 Lukases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lukas boys named Lukas
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 44,072
- Estimated living today
- 43,000
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 214th
- Rank in 2025
- 288th
- First recorded
- 1963
- Girls / boys
- 19 / 44,053
How old the living Lukases are
born that year still alive today
Of the 44,072 babies given the name since 1963, about 43,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 27,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 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 Lukass
- Lukas Podolski (born 1985)German association football player
- Lukas Hradecky (born 1989)Finnish footballer
- Lukas Klostermann (born 1996)German association football player
- Lukas Moodysson (born 1969)Swedish writer and film director
- Lukáš Krpálek (born 1990)Czech judoka
- Lukas Lerager (born 1993)Danish association football player
- Lukáš Rosol (born 1985)Czech tennis player
- Lukas Märtens (born 2001)German swimmer
People named Lukas with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lukas is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lukas is most concentrated in Nevada (2.1×), Florida (1.8×), Washington (1.8×), Oregon (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular boys’ names the year Lukas peaked:
Lukas elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria boys | Lukas | 39,563 | 1st |
| France boys | Lukas +2 spellings | 9,625 | 83rd |
| Switzerland boys | Lukas | 5,142 | 8th |
| England and Wales boys | Lukas | 5,073 | 189th |
| Norway boys | Lukas | 5,030 | 24th |
| Belgium boys | Lukas | 4,504 | 42nd |
| Italy boys | Lukas | 2,214 | — |
| Poland boys | Lukas +1 spelling | 668 birth registrations | 154th |
| Ireland boys | Lukas | 601 | 162nd |
| Scotland boys | Lukas | 398 | 171st |
| Northern Ireland boys | Lukas | 191 | 151st |
| New Zealand boys | Lukas | 70 | 77th |
| France girls | Lukas | 20 | 4,651st |
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.
Lukas: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Lukas | 4,885 | 0.393% | 5th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Lukas | 203 | 0.047% | 139th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Lukas | 52 | 0.080% | 50th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Lukas | 2 | 0.054% | 15th |
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, Lukas is most concentrated in Appenzell Innerrhoden, where 0.90% of children were given it – 35 of them.
Lukas: rank by region
In 2025, Lukas was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Lukas | 70 | 75 |
In 2023, Lukas was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Italy. It has come first somewhere in 8 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Lukas | 10 | 1 |
| Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano | Lukas | 8 | 30 |
In 2025, Lukas was given 2 times or more in 7 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lubelskie | Lukas | 140 | 2 |
| Małopolskie | Lukas | 157 | 6 |
| Mazowieckie | Lukas | 235 | 4 |
| Śląskie | Lukas | 186 | 4 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Lukas | 136 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Lukas | 248 | 2 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Lukas | 138 | 3 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lukas appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (24th), Province of Antwerp (70th), Province of Flemish Brabant (77th), Province of West Flanders (95th) and Province of East Flanders (96th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.
Lukas by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 844 | 16th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Lukas 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.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Lukas | 4,263 | 6,079 |
| Finland boys | Lukas | 2,887 | 3,505 |
| Finland girls | Lukas | 16 | 19 |
| the Netherlands girls | Lukas | — | 6 |
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 Lukas lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,695 men called Lukas 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
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gipuzkoa | Lukas | 165 | 0.460 | 256 |
| Araba/Álava | Lukas | 38 | 0.226 | 404 |
| Navarra | Lukas | 68 | 0.201 | 440 |
| Bizkaia | Lukas | 78 | 0.138 | 557 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Lukas | 58 | 0.109 | 841 |
| Balears, Illes | Lukas | 60 | 0.096 | 733 |
Listed in 43 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 9 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Lukas against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.