Luca

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Luque in AR Argentina, ES Spain, PE Peru and 3 more, Roth in DE Germany, AT Austria, CH Switzerland and 2 more, Luke in AU Australia, GB United Kingdom, IE Ireland and 1 more and Luka in GE Georgia, HR Croatia, SI Slovenia and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Luca is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• German given name457K records spelled Luca64 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Germany, Australia, Netherlands

  Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

  Also written Lucae, Lucà, Lùca, Luca', Lucá

• Hungarian given name175K records spelled Luca5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Hungary, Italy, Romania, Slovenia

  Also written Luta, Luța, Ļuta, lucÃ

• French given name128K records spelled Luca9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland

  Also written Lùca, Lucà, Lûca, Lúca, Luca'

• Croatian given name26K records spelled Luca14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Italy, United States, Switzerland

  Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bosnian

  Also written Luča, Lucą, Lúcã, lucÃ, Lúćá

• Finnish given name13K records spelled Luca5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Italy, Estonia, United States

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Lucá, Lucä, Lucà

• a separate given name8.5K records spelled Luca4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

  Also written Lucà, Lúca, Lucá

• Polish given name7.7K records spelled Luca6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Italy, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Luca', Lucà, Lůca, Lùcà, lucÃ

• Czech given name3.4K records spelled Luca11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Italy, Slovakia, United States

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Lůca, Lúca, Lůcá, Lucá, Lucà

67 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Luca is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Italian, from Luca, a pet form of the personal name Lucia, feminine form of Lucio, from Latin Lucius.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• From Greek. See }Luke in main dictionary. Lucia @ From Latin. See main dictionary.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In German, a male given name from Italian, of early 2000's origin

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, a male given name, equivalent to English Luke or Lucas

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Spanish, a thousand pesos

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

AR datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) — 72 years between 1924–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Luciab. 283ITnot in their usual namesaint from Italy
• Luca della Robbiab. 1399FRItalian sculptor (1399–1482)
• Luca Paciolib. 1445ITItalian father of accounting (*~1445 – †1517)
• Kate Jacksonb. 1948USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, producer, and director (born 1948)
• Lucy Lawlessb. 1968NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand actress
• Lucy Liub. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1968)
• Lucy Hawkingb. 1969GBnot in their usual nameEnglish journalist and novelist
• Luca Guadagninob. 1971ITItalian filmmaker (born 1971)
• Luca Tonib. 1977ITItalian association football player (1977-)
• Lucy Punchb. 1977GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,529 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Luca?

We estimate roughly 2.6 million people bear Luca (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.

In which country does Luca have the most bearers?

We estimate about 1.3 million people bear Luca in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled luca.

Where is Luca most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Luca is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 52 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.

How common is Luca compared with other names?

In Slovenia, Luca is the 10th most common given name of 11,759 given names recorded there.

Is Luca a male or female name?

Luca is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Luca mean?

Recorded meaning: possibly from a short form of Greek Loukanos, denoting an inhabitant of Lucania (see Lucas).