Meaning not yet researched.
Luka: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,873 in 2025. Its best rank was #85 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99% of babies named Luka in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#85 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Luka: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,873 boys in 2025. Peak: #85 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 3,873 (2025).
In 2025, 3,873 US boys were named Luka, making it the 85th most common boys’ name of the year, up 9 places from #94 in 2024. That is 165 more than the 3,708 boys named Luka in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #85, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 3,873. For comparison, it was #524 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Luka in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 6 babies. In all, 29,522 US babies have been given the name, 1.9% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 20,247 babies named Luka.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 24,203 US boys were named Luka; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 3,873. In 2025 that was about 1 in 441 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Luka ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #50 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 21 states (counting DC). 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.
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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 Luka in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 14 | #50 | — |
| California | 640 | #55 | #418 |
| Illinois | 173 | #58 | #367 |
| Texas | 589 | #59 | #589 |
| South Dakota | 18 | #60 | — |
| New Mexico | 27 | #64 | — |
| Nevada | 44 | #67 | #376 |
| Hawaii | 13 | #68 | #169 |
| Kansas | 49 | #68 | — |
| Florida | 279 | #71 | #430 |
| West Virginia | 25 | #73 | — |
| Idaho | 30 | #75 | — |
| Colorado | 85 | #76 | #344 |
| Washington | 91 | #81 | #532 |
| Utah | 59 | #82 | #660 |
| Rhode Island | 13 | #86 | — |
| Kentucky | 57 | #87 | — |
| Arkansas | 36 | #90 | — |
| North Dakota | 13 | #91 | — |
| Iowa | 38 | #97 | — |
| Virginia | 88 | #99 | #484 |
| Arizona | 81 | #103 | #546 |
| District of Columbia | 9 | #104 | — |
| Indiana | 75 | #104 | #527 |
| New York | 169 | #104 | #425 |
| Oklahoma | 44 | #108 | — |
| North Carolina | 110 | #112 | #610 |
| Michigan | 87 | #113 | #696 |
| Ohio | 115 | #118 | #385 |
| Georgia | 96 | #120 | #767 |
| Pennsylvania | 105 | #121 | #366 |
| Missouri | 59 | #122 | — |
| Wisconsin | 50 | #124 | #580 |
| Massachusetts | 57 | #125 | #787 |
| Minnesota | 51 | #127 | #524 |
| Maryland | 47 | #127 | #758 |
| New Jersey | 73 | #133 | #532 |
| South Carolina | 42 | #135 | — |
| Connecticut | 28 | #135 | #311 |
| Maine | 9 | #146 | — |
| Oregon | 28 | #151 | #684 |
| Delaware | 7 | #158 | — |
| Tennessee | 58 | #168 | #718 |
| Alabama | 34 | #171 | — |
| Montana | 6 | #217 | — |
| Nebraska | 12 | #222 | — |
| Louisiana | 23 | #227 | #773 |
| Mississippi | 11 | #304 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,174 | 3,873 | #85 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,554 | 3,708 | #94 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,327 | 3,657 | #95 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,412 | 3,303 | #117 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,375 | 3,209 | #115 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,503 | 2,344 | #161 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,100 | 1,704 | #221 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,842 | 1,049 | #321 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,544 | 707 | #440 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,932 | 649 | #471 |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,359 | 550 | #524 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,513 | 494 | #560 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,418 | 433 | #586 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,492 | 375 | #638 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,652 | 303 | #748 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,093 | 316 | #727 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,226 | 291 | #782 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,967 | 286 | #778 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,612 | 298 | #749 |
| 2006 | — | — | 252 | #809 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,153 | 212 | #868 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,665 | 209 | #851 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,781 | 146 | #1,068 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,744 | 119 | #1,181 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,868 | 117 | #1,176 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,393 | 86 | #1,442 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,991 | 38 | #2,385 |
| 1998 | — | — | 34 | #2,536 |
| 1997 | — | — | 26 | #2,951 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,297 | 17 | #3,946 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,514 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #4,028 |
| 1993 | — | — | 21 | #3,207 |
| 1992 | — | — | 14 | #4,248 |
| 1991 | — | — | 13 | #4,382 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,237 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,432 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,866 | 8 | #5,522 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,580 | 8 | #5,261 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,338 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,939 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,889 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,508 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,350 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,193 |
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).