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Luc

#3,482 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Lucas

Luc has been given to 3,614 babies in the U.S. since 1949. In 2025 it ranked #3,482 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 172 recorded.

Babies named Luc, 2025

1 in 100,000

Luc over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Luc: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Lucas

Koine Greek

What Luc means

Luc is a form of Lucas.

Origin, language, and formation

Luc is used in French, Norman and Welsh. Its origins include Koine Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lucas and Luke.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Luc is pronounced /lyk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,614 boys were recorded with the name Luc between 1949 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 172 in 2002; its best national rank was #933 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,530 in 2020 to #3,482 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,836 in 2015 to #3,482 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Luc?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,482
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Luc sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Luc. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lucs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Luc was born before 2004 — so the typical Luc is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,609
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (1,405).

Is Luc rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−54
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−952
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,646
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.41×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.2%
Peak was 2002 (172)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#933
2002

Where Luc is used

Across 2016–2025, Luc was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 29,840 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 16,667
  2. 2Florida1 in 25,000
  3. 3New York1 in 25,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 50,000
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 50,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Luc around the world

Where Luc ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1999–2016
    #707
    in 2016
  • Northern Ireland
    2001–2011
    #311
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    1994–2020
    #741
    in 2020
  • France
    1900–2025
    #913
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,331
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Luc

People whose public names include Luc, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Luc in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Luc. Linked forms have their own page here.

LuLucaLuckLukaLukeLuukLucasLuckyLukasLoukasLuciusLuukasŁukaszLucjusz

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Luc by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,482
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 952
Best rank ever
#933
2002
Peak year
2002
172 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,614
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Luc

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LuckyLucioLucusLuccaLucyLucahLucienLuciusLuciousLucanLucianLucaLuccasLucianoLuciferLuceroJeanlucLuccianoLuckLucilleLucasLuciaLuckieLucion

Names with a curve like Luc

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Luc, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SabastianSahilDaylonRyleyReillyKeandreLatrellQuinlanVarunWillemJonatanTavion

Sibling names for Luc

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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