Luka
Luka was given to 3,873 boys in 2025, #85 among boys’ names; 29,522 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 29,300 Americans named Luka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Luka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Luka mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Luka is “a male given name from the Slavic languages, of modern usage.”
Also “a transliteration of the Macedonian, Russian, or Ukrainian male given name Лука́ (Luká).”
From the common Slavic (Macedonian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Ukrainian, etc) male given name Luka and from Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian Лука́ (Luká), all cognates of English Luke and Lucas.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Luka?
#85 among boys’ names, 2025
Luka rose from #524 in 2015 to #85 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.29 to 2.3 per 1,000.
3,898 babies in 2025, the peak
Luka peaked in 2025, when 3,898 babies were given it (3,873 boys, #85 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 3,708 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,873 | #85 | 2.3 |
| 2024 | 3,708 | #94 | 2.2 |
| 2023 | 3,657 | #95 | 2.1 |
| 2022 | 3,303 | #117 | 1.9 |
| 2021 | 3,209 | #115 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | 2,344 | #161 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 1,704 | #221 | 0.95 |
| 2018 | 1,049 | #321 | 0.58 |
| 2017 | 707 | #440 | 0.38 |
| 2016 | 649 | #471 | 0.34 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 550 | #524 | 0.29 |
| 2014 | 494 | #560 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 433 | #586 | 0.23 |
| 2012 | 375 | #638 | 0.20 |
| 2011 | 303 | #748 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 316 | #727 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 291 | #782 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 286 | #778 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 298 | #749 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 252 | #809 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 212 | #868 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 209 | #850 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 146 | #1,067 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 119 | #1,179 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 117 | #1,174 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,438 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 38 | #2,382 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 34 | #2,533 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,947 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,940 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,508 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,022 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,201 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,241 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,375 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,230 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,425 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,516 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,254 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,334 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,935 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,887 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,505 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,348 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,191 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Luka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 29,522 Americans recorded as Luka, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 25 girls and 3,873 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Luka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Luka, and how old are they?
29,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 29,522 Americans ever recorded as Luka. The median Luka alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 9,618 people named Luka (481 women and girls, 9,137 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,791 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 172 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,270 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 25,800 |
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 Luka born?
The states with the most babies named Luka are California, Texas and Florida, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 640 | #55 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 594 | #59 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 279 | #71 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 173 | #58 | 1.3× |
| New York | 169 | #104 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 115 | #118 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 110 | #112 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 105 | #121 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 96 | #120 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 91 | #81 | 1.0× |
Where Luka is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Luka is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1975 it was given 1.3 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 Luka 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 446,836 babies since 1880, Luka is the third most given (6.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 3,898 of their 20,717 babies (19%), again the third most given.
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 Luka
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 Luka and names like it
- Compare Luka and LukeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLuka peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Luka since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Luka.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Luka alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.