Lukes

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from the personal name Lukas, Czech form of Lucas

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 191K(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 231K
  • CZCzechia1 in 3.8K

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.

Czechia (measured from records)

2,839 people

Sources
248 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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 the personal name Lukas, Czech form of Lucas.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lukes 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 Lukes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia2,8391 in 3.8K2.8K—3
US United States1,7401 in 191K1.7KLukes248
PT Portugal≈580 est.≈1 in 18K—Lukes3
DE Germany≈470 est.≈1 in 171K—Lukes58
GB United Kingdom≈290 est.≈1 in 231K—Lukes72
SK Slovakia771 in 71K77——
NI Nicaragua≈48 est.≈1 in 128K—Lukes6
HR Croatia411 in 103K41——

2,839 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)

Lukes is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Slovakia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Lukeš

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Lukeš

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Lukes̆, Lukeš

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Lukeš

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Lukeš

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Kenya

    Also written Luke'S

38 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)

Lukes 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 English, A surname transferred from the given name.

    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)

180018501900195020002050Jan Ludvík Lukes, b. 1824William F. Lukes, b. 1847Steven Lukes, b. 1941Konstantina Lukes, b. 1941Nathan Lukes, b. 1994Chiara Lukes, b. 2002

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 Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 32 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Lukes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.7K#16,509
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.7K#15,725
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.6K#16,901
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202141#15,081
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—31#40,628
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—31#13,057
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202130—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

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 Lukes mean, and where does it come from?
from the personal name Lukas, Czech form of Lucas. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Lukes?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɫuks/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Lukes have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Lukes, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Lukes most common?
Lukes is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.8 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Lukes?
In Czechia, the national register counted 2,839 people named Lukes, about 1 in 3.8 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, “Lukes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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