Louka
given name · Latin script
Meaning: de /ux, lumière ou lucanus, clair
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/luka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Louka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 40K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 43K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
de /ux, lumière ou lucanus, clair. Fêtes : 4 (17) janvier, 29 janvier (11 février), 7 (20) février, 22 avril (5 mai), 30 juillet (12 août), 7 (20) septembre, 28 septembre (11 octobre), 18 (31} octobre, 6 (19) novembre, 11 (24) décembre. Lucas ou Lue est son équivalent français. Fêtes : 18 octobre, 22 avril. 82
Sources 1
- Russian Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Louka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #992 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 14K | Louka | 178 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Louka | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 6 | Louka | 26 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Louka | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 91 | 1 in 190K | 64 | — | 1 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Louka is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Luka.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Czech, meadow
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Luka Borovikb. 1720not in their usual nameUkrainian Russian painter and officer
- Łukasz Dolińskib. 1750UAnot in their usual namepainter (1750-1830)
- Luka Lytvynb. 1876not in their usual namepolitician
- Volodymyr Temnytskyb. 1879UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian diplomat
- Luka Turchynb. 1881UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian scientist, educator, public figure
- Luka Alekseyevb. 1884not in their usual nameRussian Righteous Among the Nations
- Luka Radoticb. 2000RSnot in their usual nameSerbian association football player
- Luka Berulavab. 2002RUnot in their usual nameGeorgian figure skater
- Luka ĐorđevićUSnot in their usual nameresearcher
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 39 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 14K | #183 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 64 | #7,259 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 52 | #11,594 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 27 | #9,742 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 20 | #19,561 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2022 | 6 | #1,191 |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Louka?
- A machine transcription gives /luka/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Louka mean?
- Recorded meaning: de /ux, lumière ou lucanus, clair.
- Is Louka a male or female name?
- Louka 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 are other forms of the name Louka?
- In the etymology graph, Lucas, Luke and Luca are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Louka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.2 thousand people named Louka in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled louka.
- How common is the name Louka?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 91 people named Louka, about 1 in 190 thousand residents.
- How common is Louka compared with other names?
- In France, Louka is the 992nd most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/loukaThe 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, “Louka” — the 992nd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.