Lukas — #268 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Lukas

The Social Security Administration has registered 42,878 babies named Lukas between 1963 and 2024, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lukas currently holds the #268 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 1,786 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lukas performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 15,952 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Lukas shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 4,698 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Lukas in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lukas in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 42,878 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.