Luka
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a short form of Czech Lukas, Polish Lukasz, Hungarian Lukdcs, vernacular forms of Lucas
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lʉkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Luka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 55th most common surname.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 735as Roth
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 868as Ross
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Luka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #237 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 608 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
229,368 named Ross, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ross in US United States, CA Canada, NZ New Zealand, Luke in GB United Kingdom, AU Australia, NG Nigeria, Luca in IT Italy, CH Switzerland and Roth in DE Germany.
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 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(measured from records)
Luka 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 | #55 | 229,368as Ross | 1 in 1.4K | 267K | Ross | 608 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Luke | 75 |
| DE Germany | #30 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Roth | 235 |
| GB United Kingdom | #67 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 2.8K | Luke | 360 |
| IT Italy | #69 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 5 | Luca | 305 |
| CA Canada | #34 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 139 | Ross | 295 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 30,159as Lucas | 1 in 561 | 30K | Luque | 36 |
| AU Australia | #64 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 353 | Luke | 348 |
| CH Switzerland | #20 | 11,430as Roth | 1 in 735 | 11K | Luca | 139 |
| NZ New Zealand | #49 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 868 | 75 | Ross | 165 |
229,368 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INEC — civil registry names; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 112 sources across 51 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9.1K | #2,526 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 3.9K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 821 | #30,466 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 708 | #32,485 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 633 | #33,933 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 481 | #2,526 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 380 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2023 | 353 | — |
| CH Switzerland | FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung | 2024 | 103 | #61 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 68 | #14,835 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 44 | #97 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2021 | 7 | — |
Reference works 9
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- 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, and where does it come from?
- from a short form of Czech Lukas, Polish Lukasz, Hungarian Lukdcs, vernacular forms of Lucas. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Luka have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 229 thousand people named Ross, more than in any other country we hold.
- What are other forms of the name Luka?
- In the etymology graph, Lucas, Luke and Luc are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Luka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 229,368 people named Ross in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Luka compared with other names?
- In the United States, Luka is the 55th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Luka?
- A machine transcription gives /lʉkə/ (IPA) for Georgian.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lukaThe 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, “Luka” — the 55th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.