Lukas

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A few things about Lukas you might not know, from US birth records and Wikipedia. Handy for convincing a partner, or a grandparent.

⭐ Famous Lukas

Lukas Podolski

German association football player (born 1985)

Choose Lukas and your child shares a first name with Lukas Podolski, a German association football player. A ready-made answer when someone asks “Lukas, like who?” Lukas Podolski's Wikipedia article is available in 90 languages, a good sign of just how widely known they are.

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Photo: Jacek Stanislawek, CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab), via Wikimedia Commons

• 👶How commonAbout 1 in every 1,471 baby boys born in the US in 2025 was named Lukas, 1,161 babies in all. In a typical school of 500 kids, your Lukas would very likely be the only one.
• 📜HistoryLukas first shows up in US birth records in 1963, the first year at least 5 babies got it. It has been in use for 62 years since.
• 🏆Best yearIts best year was 2019, when it reached #214.
• 🍂TrendLukas has slipped 70 places over the last five years and now sits at #288. Good news if you want a familiar name that fewer kids will share.
• 📍Where it's lovedLukas is most popular in Alaska, where it ranks #110, followed by New Hampshire (#169) and Hawaii (#180). It makes the top 1,000 in almost every state.
• 💬MeaningLukas is a German form of Lucas, which means “man from Lucania”. Our records link it to Czech, German and Greek roots.
• 🌍OriginLukas is the most popular Czech boy name in the US. That's out of 19 Czech boy and unisex names in our list.

About the name Lukas

Lukas is a boy name of Czech, German and Greek origin meaning “man from Lucania”. It has 5 letters and 2 syllables, starting with L and ending in “-kas”. US birth records list Lukas for boys from 1963 to 2025, in 62 of those 63 years. Its best year was 2019, when it ranked #214 among boy names. In 2025 it ranked #288, with 1,161 babies.

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