Luka

given name · Croatian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Luka is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Slovenia it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Georgian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from a short form of Czech Lukas, Polish Lukasz, Hungarian Lukdcs, vernacular forms of Lucas.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 52◐
  • GEGeorgia1 in 86
  • PLPoland1 in 100

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.6M ●

across 15 countries

#542 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
549 ●

6.7M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 52 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

LosLatin · English●22M records
ᲚუკაGeorgian · Georgian●100K records
ЛукаCyrillic · Russian●28K records
ลีกาThai · Thai●382 records
ΛουκάGreek · Greek●12 records
루크Hangul · Korean●1 records
ראטHebrew · Yiddish●0 records

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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 Los in US United States, CA Canada.

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●

from a short form of Czech Lukas, Polish Lukasz, Hungarian Lukdcs, vernacular forms of Lucas.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Luka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—1,341,525△16K rec.1 in 1581.3MLuca143
AU Australia#51427,023360K rec.—353Luke331
GB United Kingdom#162412,774364K rec.—2.8KLuke277
PL Poland#30382,274△107K rec.1 in 100383KŁukasz123
AR Argentina#448376,366241K rec.—31KLuque97
CA Canada#343362,877118K rec.—139Los222
IT Italy#14295,774297K rec.—5Luca275
US United States#526266,7924.2M rec.1 in 1.2K267KLos549
CZ Czechia#472205,964△889 rec.1 in 52206KLucas63
FR France—185,875△113 rec.1 in 365186KRoet13
DE Germany—126,826121K rec.—2Roth216
PE Peru—122,388113K rec.——Luque83

Roughly 1.3M people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 158). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Croatian225K32%
  • Georgian205K29%
  • French58K8%
  • English35K5%
  • Spanish31K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Croatian224,62832%
Georgian205,06629%
French58,0078%
English34,7335%
Spanish31,3544%

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◐

Luka is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name62K records spelled Luka3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Italy

    Languages: French, Italian

    Also written Lùkä

  • Spanish given name51K records spelled Luka6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Luká, Lúka, Lukã, Lüká

  • Finnish given name19K records spelled Luka8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Nigeria, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Lukâ, Lùkà, Lūkå, Lùkâ, Luká

  • Danish given name6.3K records spelled Luka12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Iceland, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Icelandic

    Also written Lũkä, Lúka, Lūkå, Lūkaa, Lukaa

  • Hindi given name5.7K records spelled Luka6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Nigeria, Serbia, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Luká, Lukẵ, Lûkâ, Lüka

64 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●

Luka 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 Dutch, from a vernacular form of the personal name Lucas.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Serbo-Croatian, harbor; harbour

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, Luka (Luca) är en romansk och slavisk form av → Lukas. Det har blivit populärt det senaste decenniet. I den finlandssvenska almanackan (Luca) 18 oktober.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In umb, name. *Lukiyay v. a., put one thing in place of another ; change, misrepresent

    as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language

  • In Russian, probably a fem of Luk.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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●

01K2K3K4K19801990200020102020

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Luka in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1975–2025
Yearrecords
19756
19766
19786
19815
19836
19847
198711
19888
19899
199010
199113
199214
199321
199416
199519
199617
199726
199834
199938
200086
2001117
2002119
2003146
2004209
2005212
2006252
2007298
2008286
2009291
2010316
2011303
2012375
2013433
2014494
2015550
2016649
2017707
20181,049
20191,704
20202,344
20213,209
20223,303
20233,657
20243,708
20253,873

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 45 years between 1975–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, b. 1715Luc Montagnier, b. 1932Richard Clayderman, b. 1953Luc Dardenne, b. 1954Luc Besson, b. 1959Luc Jacquet, b. 1967Luka Modric, b. 1985Simon Mignolet, b. 1988Luka Jović, b. 1997Luka Dončić, b. 1999
  • Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenarguesb. 1715FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer, a moralist (1715-1747)
  • Luc Montagnierb. 1932FRnot in their usual nameFrench virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)
  • Richard Claydermanb. 1953FRnot in their usual nameFrench pianist
  • Luc Dardenneb. 1954BEnot in their usual nameBelgian director, film producer and screenwriter
  • Luc Bessonb. 1959FRnot in their usual nameFrench filmmaker (born 1959)
  • Luc Jacquetb. 1967FRnot in their usual nameFrench film director
  • Luka Modricb. 1985HRCroatian footballer (born 1985)
  • Simon Mignoletb. 1988BEnot in their usual nameBelgian association football player (born 1988)
  • Luka Jovićb. 1997RSSerbian association football player
  • Luka Dončićb. 1999SISlovenian basketball player (born 1999)

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●

Attested in 106 sources across 51 countries.

Official registers attesting Luka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202136K—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202130K#15
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—14K#7
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202514K#6
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202411K#264
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20209.1K#2,526
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—4.7K#923
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—4.6K#639
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—4.3K—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20253.9K—
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3.3K#535
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20242.8K#49

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,200 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Luka?
We estimate roughly 2.6 million people bear Luka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Luka have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.3 million people bear Luka in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled luca.
Where is Luka most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Luka is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 52 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is Luka compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Luka is the 10th most common given name of 11,759 given names recorded there.
Is Luka a male or female name?
Luka 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 Luka mean?
Recorded meaning: from a short form of Czech Lukas, Polish Lukasz, Hungarian Lukdcs, vernacular forms of Lucas.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Luka” — the 10th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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