Lûcky
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lûcky is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English lukky, equivalent to luck + -y. Cognate with Scots lucky (“lucky”), West Frisian lokkich (“lucky, fortunate”), Dutch gelukkig (“lucky, fortunate, happy”).
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 815(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 998
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 815 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lucky in NG Nigeria, US United States, ZA South Africa and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Middle English lukky, equivalent to luck + -y. Cognate with Scots lucky (“lucky”), West Frisian lokkich (“lucky, fortunate”), Dutch gelukkig (“lucky, fortunate, happy”). Compare also Danish lykkelig (“happy”), Swedish lycklig (“happy, lucky”), German glücklich (“happy”), Saterland Frisian glukkelk (“happy”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lûcky counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #228 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 998 | — | Lucky | 105 |
| ZA South Africa | #153 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 815 | — | Lucky | 80 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 5 | — | 20 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Lucky | 76 |
| US United States | — | 3,838 | 1 in 87K | 3K | Lucky | 312 |
| GH Ghana | #490 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Lucky | 23 |
| SZ Eswatini | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 29 | — | 9 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lûcky mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English lukky, equivalent to luck + -y. Cognate with Scots lucky (“lucky”), West Frisian lokkich (“lucky, fortunate”), Dutch gelukkig (“lucky, fortunate, happy”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Is Lûcky a male or female name?
- Lûcky 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.
- In which country does Lûcky have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 215 thousand people named Lûcky in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lucky.
- How common is the name Lûcky?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,838 people named Lûcky in 2020, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
- How common is Lûcky compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Lûcky is the 228th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%BBckyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Lûcky” — the 228th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.