Luc
Luc was given to 33 boys in 2025, #3,482 among boys’ names; 3,614 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,510 Americans named Luc and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Luc by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Luc mean?
Wiktionary, Welsh section
Luc is “a male given name from Koine Greek, equivalent to English Luke”
From Late Latin Lūcās, from Koine Greek Λουκᾶς (Loukâs).
/lɨ̞k/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Welsh section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Luc?
#3,482 among boys’ names, 2025
Luc fell from #1,836 in 2015 to #3,482 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 42.3 to 19.3 per million.
172 babies in 2002, the peak
Luc peaked in 2002, when 172 boys were given it, #933 among boys’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #3,482 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 34 | #3,428 | 19.7 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,521 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,183 | 38.4 |
| 2021 | 60 | #2,313 | 34.3 |
| 2020 | 51 | #2,530 | 29.5 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,382 | 31.8 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,184 | 35.2 |
| 2017 | 78 | #1,876 | 42.1 |
| 2016 | 96 | #1,658 | 50.6 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 81 | #1,836 | 42.3 |
| 2014 | 87 | #1,743 | 45.3 |
| 2013 | 93 | #1,638 | 49.2 |
| 2012 | 88 | #1,724 | 46.4 |
| 2011 | 97 | #1,593 | 51.1 |
| 2010 | 124 | #1,369 | 64.6 |
| 2009 | 100 | #1,599 | 50.4 |
| 2008 | 135 | #1,292 | 66.2 |
| 2007 | 118 | #1,395 | 56.9 |
| 2006 | 137 | #1,227 | 66.7 |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,087 | 76.1 |
| 2004 | 154 | #1,050 | 77.6 |
| 2003 | 153 | #1,034 | 77.5 |
| 2002 | 172 | #933 | 88.6 |
| 2001 | 147 | #1,014 | 75.7 |
| 2000 | 137 | #1,049 | 69.8 |
| 1999 | 109 | #1,181 | 56.8 |
| 1998 | 102 | #1,208 | 53.4 |
| 1997 | 103 | #1,171 | 54.6 |
| 1996 | 91 | #1,229 | 48.0 |
| 1995 | 84 | #1,279 | 44.1 |
| 1994 | 42 | #1,997 | 21.7 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,386 | 35.7 |
| 1992 | 45 | #1,822 | 22.5 |
| 1991 | 31 | #2,320 | 15.3 |
| 1990 | 39 | #1,954 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,422 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,069 | 16.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,442 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,333 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,229 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,406 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,463 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,217 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,758 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,799 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,264 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,745 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,183 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,606 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,926 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,265 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,209 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,536 | 3.2 |
| 1968 | 9 | #3,011 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,554 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,766 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,136 | 8.1 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,977 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,789 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,193 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 9 | #3,017 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,993 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,176 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,775 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,940 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,260 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,676 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,016 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Luc a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Luc has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Luc: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Luc, and how old are they?
3,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,614 Americans ever recorded as Luc. The median Luc alive today is 21 years old; half are between 14 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 5,827 people named Luc (612 women and girls, 5,215 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,279 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Luc rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 62 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 112 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 518 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,990 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 828 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Luc born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,362 | 1.6× |
Where Luc is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Luc is most over-represented in California: since 1949 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Luc with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Luc
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Luc and names like it
- Compare Luc and KushBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLuc peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Luc since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Luc.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Luc alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.