Luck
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Translation of the Lrench Canadian secondary surnames Lachance and Lafortune
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/lɐk/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Luck is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 9.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 18K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 26K
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 Luck 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 359 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Lück in DE Germany and Lueck in AG Antigua & Barbuda.
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)Translation of the Lrench Canadian secondary surnames Lachance and Lafortune.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Luck 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #518 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Lück | 110 |
| US United States | — | 6,008 | 1 in 55K | 6K | Luck | 359 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Luck | 182 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Luck | 127 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Luck | 33 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Luck | 30 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Lueck | 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: 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Luck is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
German (also Liick); from a short form of LUdeke, a pet form of Ludolph (compare Liedtke 2) or occasionally-from Ludwig or Lucas.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name from Luik, the Dutch name of the Belgian city of Liege.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
variant of English Luke, German Lukas.
as a nameDictionary of American Family 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)- Charles Luckb. 1886GBgymnast (1886–1981)
- Aubrey Luckb. 1900AUAustralian politician
- Georg Luckb. 1926USSwiss-American classical philologist (1926-2013)
- Gary E. Luckb. 1937USRecipient of the Purple Heart medal
- Peter Luckb. 1944AUAustralian television presenter and writer
- Karl-Heinz Luckb. 1945DEEast German Nordic combined skier (1945–2024)
- Oliver Luckb. 1960USAmerican football player and sports executive (born 1960)
- Frank Luckb. 1967DEGerman biathlete
- Andrew Luckb. 1989USAmerican football player (born 1989)
- Sophie Luckb. 1989AUAustralian actress of Estonian origin (born 1989)
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)44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6K | #5,765 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.9K | #5,394 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.8K | #5,763 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 are other forms of the name Luck?
- In the etymology graph, Glück is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Luck mean, and where does it come from?
- Translation of the Lrench Canadian secondary surnames Lachance and Lafortune. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Luck?
- In English /lɐk/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Luck have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.2 thousand people named Luck in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lück.
- How common is the name Luck?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,008 people named Luck in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Luck compared with other names?
- In Germany, Luck is the 518th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/luckThe 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, “Luck” — the 518th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.