Lucke
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Lucke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: German surname, variant of Luck.
- DEGermany≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 123K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 150Kfew records
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 Lucke 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
- 229 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,100 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 Luecke in GB United Kingdom, IE Ireland, BS Bahamas and 1 more and Lücke 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)German surname, variant of Luck.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Lucke is found
(measured from records)Lucke 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 | #792 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Lücke | 102 |
| US United States | — | 1,489 | 1 in 223K | 1.5K | Lucke | 229 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 376K | — | Luecke | 53 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 151K | 1 | Lucke | 63 |
| BR Brazil | — | 168 | 1 in 1.3M | 168 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 141 | 1 in 123K | 141 | Lucke | 14 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Luecke | 5 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Luecke | 3 |
| BS Bahamas | #176 | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Luecke | 2 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)Lucke 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.
In enm, alternative form of luk
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)- Willi Luckeb. 1913DEGerman politician
- Jörg Luckeb. 1942DEEast German rower
- Karsten Luckeb. 1974DEGerman politician
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lucke mean, and where does it come from?
- German surname, variant of Luck. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lucke?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.1 thousand people named Lucke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lücke. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lucke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,489 people named Lucke in 2010, about 1 in 223 thousand residents.
- How common is Lucke compared with other names?
- In Germany, Lucke is the 792nd most common surname of 765,306 surnames 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/luckeThe 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, “Lucke” — the 792nd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.