Luckey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Irish spelling of Scottish Luckie
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫəki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Luckey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Falkland Islands (Malvinas) it is the 15th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 61K(measured from records)
- FKFalkland Islands (Malvinas)≈1 in 1K
- GHGhana≈1 in 41K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 309 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
5,434 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Falkland Islands (Malvinas), est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Irish spelling of Scottish Luckie.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Luckey 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 5,434 | 1 in 61K | 5.4K | Luckey | 309 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Luckey | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Luckey | 49 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Luckey | 28 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Luckey | 3 |
| FK Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | #15 | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Luckey | 1 |
5,434 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Henry Carl Luckeyb. 1868USAmerican politician (1868-1956)
- Hans Luckeyb. 1900DEGerman theologian
- Bud Luckeyb. 1934USAmerican animator (1934–2018)
- Susan Luckeyb. 1938USAmerican stage actor (1938–2012)
- Tom Luckeyb. 1940USAmerican sculptor (1940–2012)
- Q Lazzarusb. 1960USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer (1960–2022)
- Andy Luckeyb. 1965USAmerican animator and screenwriter
- Spencer Luckeyb. 1970USAmerican artist
- Ken Luckeyb. 1985USAmerican actor
- Palmer Luckeyb. 1992USAmerican founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.4K | #6,288 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.2K | #6,331 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5K | #6,278 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Luckey mean, and where does it come from?
- Irish spelling of Scottish Luckie. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Luckey?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫəki/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Luckey have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.4 thousand people named Luckey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luckey.
- How common is the name Luckey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,434 people named Luckey in 2010, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
- How common is Luckey compared with other names?
- In Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Luckey is the 15th most common surname of 405 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/luckeyThe 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, “Luckey” — the 15th most common surname in Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.