Meaning not yet researched.
Lukas: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,161 in 2025. Its best rank was #214 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #214 in 2019; #288 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lukas in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#288 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #214.
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Lukas: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,161 boys in 2025. Peak: #214 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 1,787 (2019).
In 2025, 1,161 US boys were named Lukas, making it the 288th most common boys’ name of the year, down 19 places from #269 in 2024. That is 128 fewer than the 1,289 boys named Lukas in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #214, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,787. For comparison, it was #253 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lukas in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 7 babies. In all, 44,072 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 15,956 babies named Lukas.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 15,730 US boys were named Lukas; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 1,787. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,471 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lukas ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #131 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. 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 Luka (29,522 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lukeus are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lukeus (12).
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 Lukas 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 7 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 7 | #131 | — |
| New Hampshire | 8 | #179 | #135 |
| Hawaii | 6 | #198 | — |
| Connecticut | 17 | #207 | #184 |
| Florida | 100 | #214 | #203 |
| Oregon | 20 | #214 | #301 |
| Montana | 6 | #218 | #272 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #221 | #223 |
| New Mexico | 9 | #228 | #215 |
| Kansas | 17 | #234 | #290 |
| Michigan | 43 | #238 | #210 |
| Wisconsin | 25 | #241 | #211 |
| Colorado | 27 | #246 | #170 |
| Kentucky | 22 | #248 | #265 |
| Illinois | 46 | #251 | #225 |
| Maryland | 21 | #262 | #261 |
| Massachusetts | 22 | #270 | #181 |
| Missouri | 25 | #276 | #192 |
| Ohio | 45 | #278 | #250 |
| Virginia | 31 | #279 | #249 |
| Indiana | 29 | #279 | #274 |
| Utah | 18 | #280 | #331 |
| Nevada | 11 | #292 | #429 |
| Mississippi | 11 | #305 | #457 |
| Oklahoma | 16 | #306 | #281 |
| Texas | 117 | #317 | #342 |
| California | 115 | #317 | #301 |
| West Virginia | 6 | #319 | #262 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #323 | #465 |
| North Carolina | 37 | #323 | #374 |
| Tennessee | 27 | #331 | #258 |
| New Jersey | 26 | #331 | #255 |
| Arizona | 23 | #339 | #313 |
| New York | 52 | #341 | #177 |
| Washington | 21 | #358 | #285 |
| South Carolina | 15 | #362 | #334 |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | #374 | #211 |
| Idaho | 6 | #413 | — |
| Alabama | 13 | #413 | #232 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #414 | #481 |
| Iowa | 8 | #429 | #308 |
| Georgia | 26 | #436 | #374 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #440 | #526 |
| Minnesota | 12 | #465 | #238 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,161 | #288 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,289 | #269 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,481 | #236 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,475 | #236 |
| 2021 | — | — | 1,673 | #227 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,711 | #218 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,787 | #214 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,652 | #231 |
| 2017 | — | — | 1,743 | #220 |
| 2016 | — | — | 1,758 | #221 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,430 | #253 |
| 2014 | — | — | 1,635 | #229 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,492 | #242 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,543 | #232 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,388 | #249 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,528 | #230 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,046 | 1,449 | #244 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,478 | #245 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,349 | 1,547 | #236 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,408 | #245 |
| 2005 | — | — | 1,257 | #262 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,253 | 1,080 | #294 |
| 2003 | — | — | 961 | #311 |
| 2002 | — | — | 889 | #318 |
| 2001 | — | — | 818 | #338 |
| 2000 | — | — | 723 | #367 |
| 1999 | — | — | 721 | #362 |
| 1998 | — | — | 630 | #391 |
| 1997 | — | — | 607 | #392 |
| 1996 | — | — | 612 | #381 |
| 1995 | — | — | 536 | #426 |
| 1994 | — | — | 526 | #434 |
| 1993 | — | — | 469 | #457 |
| 1992 | — | — | 478 | #457 |
| 1991 | — | — | 376 | #512 |
| 1990 | — | — | 350 | #528 |
| 1989 | — | — | 373 | #496 |
| 1988 | — | — | 261 | #571 |
| 1987 | — | — | 190 | #664 |
| 1986 | — | — | 152 | #735 |
| 1985 | — | — | 196 | #628 |
| 1984 | — | — | 126 | #770 |
| 1983 | — | — | 147 | #708 |
| 1982 | — | — | 147 | #718 |
| 1981 | — | — | 162 | #680 |
| 1980 | — | — | 146 | #728 |
| 1979 | — | — | 119 | #796 |
| 1978 | — | — | 87 | #931 |
| 1977 | — | — | 58 | #1,153 |
| 1976 | — | — | 51 | #1,218 |
| 1975 | — | — | 50 | #1,200 |
| 1974 | — | — | 28 | #1,732 |
| 1973 | — | — | 19 | #2,180 |
| 1972 | — | — | 18 | #2,211 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,830 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,710 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,981 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,551 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,141 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,899 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,399 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,530 |
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).