Luke
Luke reached its high-water mark in 2014 at number 28, and has been recorded 323,585 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 33rd. About 310,000 Lukes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Luke boys named Luke
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 323,585
- Estimated living today
- 310,000
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 28th
- Rank in 2025
- 33rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 565 / 323,020
How old the living Lukes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 323,585 babies given the name since 1880, about 310,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 154,000 of them are children and 2,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 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.
Notable Lukes
- Luke the Evangelist (died 84)one of the four evangelists
- Luke Shaw (born 1995)English association football player
- Luke Perry (1966–2019)American actor
- Luke Evans (born 1979)Welsh actor and singer
- Luke Wilson (born 1971)American actor
- Luke Hemsworth (born 1980)Australian actor
- Luke Grimes (born 1984)American actor
- Luke Young (born 1979)English association football player, born 1979
People named Luke with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Luke is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Luke is most concentrated in Alaska (2.1×), Utah (1.8×), Nevada (1.6×), Colorado (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular boys’ names the year Luke peaked:
Luke elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Luke | 72,627 | 12th |
| Ireland boys | Luke | 14,849 | 8th |
| New Zealand boys | Luke | 8,846 | 16th |
| Scotland boys | Luke | 5,803 | 29th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Luke | 3,064 | 13th |
| France boys | Luke | 1,815 | 619th |
| Switzerland boys | Luke | 484 | 224th |
| Belgium boys | Luke | 145 | 735th |
| Poland boys | Luke | 84 birth registrations | 339th |
| Norway boys | Luke | 40 | 240th |
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.
Luke: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Luke | 393 | 0.032% | 189th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Luke | 87 | 0.020% | 293rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Luke | 3 | 0.005% | 177th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Luke | 1 | 0.027% | 12th |
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, Luke is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.04% of children were given it – 127 of them.
Luke: rank by region
In 2024, Luke was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Luke | 527 | 10 |
In 2025, Luke was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Świętokrzyskie | Luke | 100 | 2 |
In 2019, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Luke appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (324th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.
Luke by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 185 | 99th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Luke 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 | Luke | 2,665 | 2,957 |
| Finland boys | Luke | 200 | 277 |
| the Netherlands girls | Luke | 62 | 84 |
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 Luke lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 365 men called Luke 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Luke | 17 | 0.041 | 1,445 |
| Balears, Illes | Luke | 23 | 0.037 | 1,550 |
| Barcelona | Luke | 106 | 0.036 | 1,431 |
| Málaga | Luke | 25 | 0.029 | 1,660 |
| Palmas, Las | Luke | 17 | 0.029 | 2,459 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Luke | 25 | 0.025 | 2,278 |
Listed in 15 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 37 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
Luke 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.