Lucking

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from OE *Lēofecing, 'son of Lēofeca'; first attested Wflliam Luueking 1188 P (Lei)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈɫəkɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Lucking is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 56K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 147K
  • USUnited States1 in 830K

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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,400 people, est.

Sources
161 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)

Cameroon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lücking 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 OE *Lēofecing, 'son of Lēofeca'; first attested Wflliam Luueking 1188 P (Lei)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lucking 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.

Where Lucking is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈1,400 est.≈1 in 56K—Lücking52
CM Cameroon≈740 est.≈1 in 38K—Lucking1
GB United Kingdom≈450 est.≈1 in 147K—Lucking99
US United States4011 in 830K438Lucking161
IT Italy≈81 est.≈1 in 770K—Lucking5
DK Denmark601 in 98K60—1
NZ New Zealand≈12 est.≈1 in 401K—Lucking21

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 — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lucking is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United Kingdom, United States

    Also written Lücking

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Also written Lücking, Lûcking

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Lücking

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States

    Also written Lücking

  • Polish name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Lücking

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Lucking 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 English, from Old English Leofecing, a patronymic from Leofeca (see Levick 2), or possibly, as Reaney suggests, a late derivative of Lovekin (see Lucken).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, present participle and gerund of luck

    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)

185019001950Alfred Lucking, b. 1856Martyn Lucking, b. 1938William Lucking, b. 1941

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)

FormalDear Lucking,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Lucking
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020438#51,363
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000434#46,240
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010401#51,830
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • 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)

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 does the name Lucking mean, and where does it come from?
from OE *Lēofecing, 'son of Lēofeca'; first attested Wflliam Luueking 1188 P (Lei) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
How do you pronounce Lucking?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɫəkɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Lucking have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Lucking in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lücking.
How common is the name Lucking?
In the United States, the national register counted 401 people named Lucking in 2010, about 1 in 830 thousand residents.

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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, “Lucking”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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