Meaning not yet researched.
Luc: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #934 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #934 in 2002; #3,483 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Luc in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,483 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #934.
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Luc: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 boys in 2025. Peak: #934 in 2002 · most boys in one year: 172 (2002).
In 2025, 33 US boys were named Luc, making it the 3,483rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 53 places from #3,430 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 34 boys named Luc in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #934, reached in 2002. That year also had the most boys given the name: 172. For comparison, it was #1,836 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Luc in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 5 babies. In all, 3,614 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,405 babies named Luc.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 573 US boys were named Luc; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 96. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lucas (331,628 babies since 1880), Luke (323,585 babies since 1880), Luca (79,211 babies since 1880) and Lukas (44,072 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Luc in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 33 | #3,483 |
| 2024 | — | — | 34 | #3,430 |
| 2023 | — | — | 33 | #3,523 |
| 2022 | — | — | 67 | #2,184 |
| 2021 | — | — | 60 | #2,314 |
| 2020 | — | — | 51 | #2,531 |
| 2019 | — | — | 57 | #2,383 |
| 2018 | — | — | 64 | #2,185 |
| 2017 | — | — | 78 | #1,876 |
| 2016 | — | — | 96 | #1,658 |
| 2015 | — | — | 81 | #1,836 |
| 2014 | — | — | 87 | #1,743 |
| 2013 | — | — | 93 | #1,639 |
| 2012 | — | — | 88 | #1,725 |
| 2011 | — | — | 97 | #1,593 |
| 2010 | — | — | 124 | #1,369 |
| 2009 | — | — | 100 | #1,600 |
| 2008 | — | — | 135 | #1,292 |
| 2007 | — | — | 118 | #1,395 |
| 2006 | — | — | 137 | #1,227 |
| 2005 | — | — | 152 | #1,088 |
| 2004 | — | — | 154 | #1,051 |
| 2003 | — | — | 153 | #1,035 |
| 2002 | — | — | 172 | #934 |
| 2001 | — | — | 147 | #1,015 |
| 2000 | — | — | 137 | #1,051 |
| 1999 | — | — | 109 | #1,183 |
| 1998 | — | — | 102 | #1,211 |
| 1997 | — | — | 103 | #1,174 |
| 1996 | — | — | 91 | #1,231 |
| 1995 | — | — | 84 | #1,284 |
| 1994 | — | — | 42 | #2,002 |
| 1993 | — | — | 70 | #1,391 |
| 1992 | — | — | 45 | #1,827 |
| 1991 | — | — | 31 | #2,326 |
| 1990 | — | — | 39 | #1,959 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,428 |
| 1988 | — | — | 31 | #2,074 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,449 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,337 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,234 |
| 1984 | — | — | 21 | #2,407 |
| 1983 | — | — | 20 | #2,464 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,218 |
| 1981 | — | — | 11 | #3,760 |
| 1980 | — | — | 17 | #2,800 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,266 |
| 1978 | — | — | 10 | #3,746 |
| 1976 | — | — | 12 | #3,185 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,608 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,928 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,267 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,211 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,538 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #3,012 |
| 1967 | — | — | 11 | #2,555 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,767 |
| 1965 | — | — | 15 | #2,137 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,978 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,790 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,194 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #3,018 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #2,994 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,177 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,776 |
| 1957 | — | — | 9 | #2,941 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,262 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,677 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #4,018 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).