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Luke

Pronounced /luk/

Rank in 2024
#34
Born in 2024
7,039
Peak year
2014 · #28
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 7,039 boys were named Luke, about 1 in every 244.
  • It peaked in 2014 with 10,521 babies, ranked #28.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 316,031 boys have been named Luke since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Luke per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.2
    Greatest
  2. 0.1
    Silent
  3. 0.1
    Boomers
  4. 0.6
    Gen X
  5. 1.7
    Millennials
  6. 4.3
    Gen Z
  7. 4.8
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 3,168 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Silent: 2,278 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Boomers: 5,031 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen X: 15,335 babies, 0.56 per 1,000. Millennials: 52,003 babies, 1.71 per 1,000. Gen Z: 133,454 babies, 4.25 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 103,848 babies, 4.78 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Latin Lūcās, from Koine Greek Λουκᾶς (Loukâs). See the Greek entry for more.

  • A male given name.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/luk/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Luke, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyRising

    Luca

    Rank
    #23
    Born '24
    7,959
    Origin
    Italian
    1880peak 20242024
  • GirlBoyRising

    Luka

    Rank
    #94
    Born '24
    3,697
    Origin
    Slavic
    1880peak 20242024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Lake

    Rank
    #1,628
    Born '24
    104
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20242024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Loki

    Rank
    #1,764
    Born '24
    93
    Origin
    Old Norse
    1880peak 20212024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Lucky

    Rank
    #1,865
    Born '24
    86
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20242024