Luca
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: possibly from a short form of Greek Loukanos, denoting an inhabitant of Lucania (see Lucas)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Luca 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.
- ITItaly≈1 in 1.1K(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 Luca 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 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
229,368 named Ross, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, 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, Roth in DE Germany and Luque in EC Ecuador.
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)
possibly from a short form of Greek Loukanos, denoting an inhabitant of Lucania (see Lucas).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Luca is read(measured from records)
Luca is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Italian45%
- Spanish14%
a thousand pesos
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French9.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Luca in French.
- English8.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Luca in English.
- German8.7%
a male given name from Italian, of early 2000's origin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Luca 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)
Luca is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Greek. See }Luke in main dictionary. Lucia @ From Latin. See main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Luciab. 283ITnot in their usual namesaint from Italy
- Luca della Robbiab. 1399FRItalian sculptor (1399–1482)
- Luca Paciolib. 1445ITItalian father of accounting (*~1445 – †1517)
- Kate Jacksonb. 1948USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, producer, and director (born 1948)
- Lucy Lawlessb. 1968NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand actress
- Lucy Liub. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1968)
- Lucy Hawkingb. 1969GBnot in their usual nameEnglish journalist and novelist
- Luca Guadagninob. 1971ITItalian filmmaker (born 1971)
- Luca Tonib. 1977ITItalian association football player (1977-)
- Lucy Punchb. 1977GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
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(measured from records)
Attested in 127 sources across 55 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,281 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,845 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,676 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 222 | #5,738 |
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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Luca a male or female name?
- Luca 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 Luca 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 does the name Luca mean, and where does it come from?
- possibly from a short form of Greek Loukanos, denoting an inhabitant of Lucania (see Lucas). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Luca?
- In the etymology graph, Lucia, Cindy and Luke are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Luca?
- 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 Luca compared with other names?
- In the United States, Luca is the 55th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Luca” — the 55th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.