Lucky
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lucky is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In English, recorded as Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 815(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 998
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 19K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 815 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lucky is read(measured from records)
Lucky is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- English41%
Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lucky in Hindi.
- Swahili15%
English word name meaning fortunate
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- Indonesian8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lucky in Indonesian.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Lucky 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #228 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 998 | — | Lucky | 105 |
| ZA South Africa | #153 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 815 | — | Lucky | 80 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 5 | — | 20 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Lucky | 76 |
| US United States | — | 3,838 | 1 in 87K | 3K | Lucky | 312 |
| GH Ghana | #490 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Lucky | 23 |
| SZ Eswatini | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 29 | — | 9 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. 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)
Lucky 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.
Probably a variant spelling of Luckie.
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)
- Lucky Thompsonb. 1924USAmerican jazz saxophonist (1924–2005)
- Lucky Varelab. 1935USAmerican politician
- Lucky Dubeb. 1964ZASouth African reggae musician (1964–2007)
- Lucky Petersonb. 1964USAmerican musician (1964–2020)
- Lucky McKeeb. 1975USAmerican writer and director
- Lucky Kuswandib. 1980IDIndonesian film director
- Lucky Vatnanib. 1985INIndian snooker player
- Lucky Mkosanab. 1987ZWZimbabwean footballer
- Lucky Jacksonb. 1997USAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Lucky Hassanactor
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 65 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,432 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #12,089 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #11,953 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Is Lucky a male or female name?
- Lucky is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Lucky mean, and where does it come from?
- Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Lucky?
- In the etymology graph, Lucas, Luca and Luc are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Luke.
- How common is the name Lucky?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,838 people named Lucky in 2020, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
- How common is Lucky compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Lucky is the 228th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Lucky have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 215 thousand people named Lucky in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lucky.
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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, “Lucky” — the 228th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.