Lukas
Lukas was given to 1,161 boys in 2025, #288 among boys’ names; 44,072 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 43,400 Americans named Lukas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lukas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lukas mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lukas is “a male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Lucas.” Its etymology gives the sense “a man from Lucania” (Lucas).
Borrowed from Latin Lucas (“a man from Lucania”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lukas?
#288 among boys’ names, 2025
Lukas fell from #253 in 2015 to #288 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.75 to 0.68 per 1,000.
1,787 babies in 2019, the peak
Lukas peaked in 2019, when 1,787 boys were given it, #214 among boys’ names. The 1,161 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,161 | #288 | 0.68 |
| 2024 | 1,289 | #269 | 0.75 |
| 2023 | 1,481 | #236 | 0.87 |
| 2022 | 1,475 | #236 | 0.84 |
| 2021 | 1,673 | #227 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 1,711 | #218 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 1,787 | #214 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 1,652 | #231 | 0.91 |
| 2017 | 1,743 | #220 | 0.94 |
| 2016 | 1,758 | #221 | 0.93 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,430 | #253 | 0.75 |
| 2014 | 1,635 | #229 | 0.85 |
| 2013 | 1,492 | #242 | 0.79 |
| 2012 | 1,543 | #232 | 0.81 |
| 2011 | 1,388 | #249 | 0.73 |
| 2010 | 1,528 | #230 | 0.80 |
| 2009 | 1,449 | #244 | 0.73 |
| 2008 | 1,478 | #245 | 0.72 |
| 2007 | 1,547 | #236 | 0.75 |
| 2006 | 1,408 | #245 | 0.69 |
| 2005 | 1,257 | #262 | 0.63 |
| 2004 | 1,080 | #294 | 0.54 |
| 2003 | 961 | #311 | 0.49 |
| 2002 | 889 | #318 | 0.46 |
| 2001 | 818 | #338 | 0.42 |
| 2000 | 723 | #367 | 0.37 |
| 1999 | 721 | #362 | 0.38 |
| 1998 | 630 | #391 | 0.33 |
| 1997 | 607 | #392 | 0.32 |
| 1996 | 612 | #381 | 0.32 |
| 1995 | 536 | #426 | 0.28 |
| 1994 | 526 | #434 | 0.27 |
| 1993 | 469 | #457 | 0.24 |
| 1992 | 478 | #457 | 0.24 |
| 1991 | 376 | #512 | 0.19 |
| 1990 | 350 | #527 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 373 | #495 | 0.19 |
| 1988 | 261 | #571 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 190 | #664 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 152 | #735 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 196 | #628 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 126 | #770 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 147 | #708 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 147 | #718 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 162 | #680 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 146 | #728 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 119 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 87 | #931 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 58 | #1,153 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 51 | #1,218 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 50 | #1,200 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 28 | #1,732 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,178 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,211 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,828 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,708 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,980 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,550 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,140 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,898 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,398 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,529 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lukas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lukas has been given almost only to boys: 19 girls in 62 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lukas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lukas, and how old are they?
43,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 44,072 Americans ever recorded as Lukas. The median Lukas alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 32,668 people named Lukas (88 women and girls, 32,580 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 35,237 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 570 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,880 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 17,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 20,100 |
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 Lukas born?
The states with the most babies named Lukas are Texas, California and Florida, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 117 | #317 | 0.6× |
| California | 115 | #317 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 100 | #214 | 1.1× |
| New York | 52 | #341 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 46 | #251 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 45 | #278 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 43 | #238 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 37 | #323 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 31 | #279 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | #374 | 1.0× |
Where Lukas is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lukas is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1963 it was given 1.7 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 Lukas 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 379,182 babies since 1880, Lukas is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,161 of their 11,460 babies (10%), again the second 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 Lukas
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 Lukas and names like it
- Compare Lukas and LucasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLukas peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lukas since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Lukas.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lukas alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.