Luca
Luca was given to 8,759 boys in 2025, #14 among boys’ names; 79,211 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 78,500 Americans named Luca and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Luca was given to 768 more boys in 2025 than in 2024, the #9 gain in babies among boys’ names.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Luca by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Luca mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Luca is “a male given name from Italian, borrowed in the 2000s.”
Borrowed from Italian Luca, from Latin Lūcās, from Ancient Greek Λουκᾶς (Loukâs), hypocoristic of Λούκιος (Loúkios) (from Latin Lūcius m) or Λουκανός (Loukanós) or both with -ᾶς (-âs). As a female given name, used in Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian as an equivalent of Lucy (ultimately of same origin, from Latin Lūcia f), but English usage is influenced by the male given name, similar Lucas, Luke, and the feminine ending -a.
/ˈluːkə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Luca?
#14 among boys’ names, 2025
Luca rose from #157 in 2015 to #14 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 1.4 to 5.1 per 1,000.
8,824 babies in 2025, the peak
Luca peaked in 2025, when 8,824 babies were given it (8,759 boys, #14 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 7,991 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8,759 | #14 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 7,991 | #23 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 7,810 | #25 | 4.6 |
| 2022 | 7,855 | #28 | 4.5 |
| 2021 | 6,891 | #42 | 3.9 |
| 2020 | 4,832 | #67 | 2.8 |
| 2019 | 4,423 | #87 | 2.5 |
| 2018 | 3,615 | #106 | 2.0 |
| 2017 | 3,091 | #130 | 1.7 |
| 2016 | 2,755 | #151 | 1.5 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,617 | #157 | 1.4 |
| 2014 | 2,304 | #185 | 1.2 |
| 2013 | 1,902 | #201 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 1,617 | #223 | 0.85 |
| 2011 | 1,340 | #260 | 0.71 |
| 2010 | 1,275 | #272 | 0.66 |
| 2009 | 1,200 | #281 | 0.60 |
| 2008 | 1,097 | #305 | 0.54 |
| 2007 | 1,056 | #312 | 0.51 |
| 2006 | 873 | #348 | 0.42 |
| 2005 | 707 | #400 | 0.35 |
| 2004 | 686 | #393 | 0.35 |
| 2003 | 544 | #463 | 0.28 |
| 2002 | 430 | #525 | 0.22 |
| 2001 | 343 | #585 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 297 | #626 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 128 | #1,064 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 115 | #1,115 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 82 | #1,356 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 87 | #1,270 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 66 | #1,468 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 62 | #1,519 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 65 | #1,449 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 45 | #1,823 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 38 | #1,995 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,239 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 36 | #2,009 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 38 | #1,804 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 34 | #1,882 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,567 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 23 | #2,331 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,586 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,182 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,481 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 32 | #1,792 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,363 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,519 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,440 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,505 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 26 | #1,910 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,599 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,063 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,260 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,363 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,537 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,793 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,523 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,560 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,222 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,904 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,846 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,143 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,969 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,586 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,600 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,341 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,690 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,544 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,807 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,374 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,669 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Luca a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 79,211 Americans recorded as Luca, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 65 girls and 8,759 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Luca: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Luca, and how old are they?
78,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 79,211 Americans ever recorded as Luca. The median Luca alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 35,413 people named Luca (1,334 women and girls, 34,079 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 35,433 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 150 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 619 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 65,500 |
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 Luca born?
The states with the most babies named Luca are California, Texas and Florida, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,265 | #11 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 909 | #20 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 710 | #7 | 1.2× |
| New York | 685 | #6 | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 378 | #4 | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 344 | #17 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 302 | #17 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 291 | #21 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 264 | #26 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 245 | #11 | 0.9× |
Where Luca is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Luca is most over-represented in Connecticut: since 1915 it was given 1.9 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 Luca with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 452,948 babies since 1880, Luca is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8,824 of their 20,848 babies (42%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Luca
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 Luca and names like it
- Compare Luca and LukeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLuca peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Luca since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Luca: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Luca.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Luca alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.