Lucking
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OE *Lēofecing, 'son of Lēofeca'; first attested Wflliam Luueking 1188 P (Lei)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Lucking is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 46K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 98K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 140K
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 Lucking itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Lucking is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Lücking | 52 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Lucking | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Lucking | 99 |
| US United States | 401 | 1 in 830K | 438 | Lucking | 161 |
| DK Denmark | 60 | 1 in 98K | 60 | — | 1 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Lucking | 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; 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 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)- Alfred Luckingb. 1856USCanadian-born American congressman for Michigan (1856-1929)
- Martyn Luckingb. 1938GBBritish shot putter
- William Luckingb. 1941USAmerican actor (1941–2021)
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lucking?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Lucking in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lücking. After it come Cameroon, United Kingdom, United States and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/luckingThe 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, “Lucking”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.