Lueck
surname · Latin script
Meaning: German (Liick); habitational name from any of several places so named
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫuɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lueck is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 11Kas Lück(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 19Kas Luck
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 27Kas Luck
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 Lueck 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 359 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Luck in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 1 more and Lück 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 (Liick); habitational name from any of several places so named.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lueck 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Lueck | 17 |
| DE Germany | #518 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Lück | 110 |
| US United States | — | 6,008as Luck | 1 in 55K | 6K | Luck | 359 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Lueck | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Luck | 182 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Luck | 127 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Luck | 30 |
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)
Lueck 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.
from the personal name Lueck, a vernacular form of Lucas.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from the personal name Liideke (see Luedecke).
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)
- Martin L. Lueckb. 1872USAmerican politician and judge
- William R. Lueckb. 1900USAmerican mathematics and education (1900-1979)
- Bob Lueckb. 1943USCanadian football player
- Bill Lueckb. 1946USAmerican football player
- Dale Lueckb. 1949USAmerican politician
- Christian J. LueckGBneurologist and neuro-ophthalmology researcher
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #9,123 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.5K | #8,727 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.4K | #9,307 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Lueck mean, and where does it come from?
- German (Liick); habitational name from any of several places so named. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lueck?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫuɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lueck have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Lueck in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lueck.
- How common is the name Lueck?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,008 people named Luck in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Lueck compared with other names?
- In Germany, Lueck is the 518th 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/lueckThe 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, “Lueck” — the 518th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.