Luk

Boys' name

Man from Lucania, through Lukáš

Luk has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1998. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1998, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Luk, 2008

1 in 786,000

Luk over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Luk: meaning, origin, and history

Man from Lucania, through Lukáš

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Luk means

Luk belongs to the name family reached through Luk → Lukáš. Its meaning is “man from Lucania”.

Origin, language, and formation

Luk is used in Dutch, Slovak and Walloon.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Luke and Lukáš.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Luk is pronounced /lyk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Luk between 1998 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1998; its best national rank was #10,637 in 1998.

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.

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How common is Luk?

Luk had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008: 1 in 786,000; 5 of 3,930,727 births
Among boys only: 1 in 408,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2008: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 544,916 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Luk 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 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Luk. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Luks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Luk was born before 1998 — so the typical Luk is around 27 today.

Median birth year: 1998; About 27 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 10; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Luk 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1998 (5)
Years since peak: 27; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #10,637; 1998

Luk around the world

Where Luk 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.

France
1996–2015
#5,698
in 2015

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Luk by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #10,637; 1998
Peak year: 1998; 5 that year
First recorded: 1998
Last recorded: 2008
All-time count: 10
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Luk

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

Lukai Lukin Lukaz Lukyan Lukan Lukeus Lukian Lukkas Lukman Lukacs Lukaus Lukka Lukes Lukasey Luken Lukis Lukah Lukus Lukasz Lukeanthony Luka Lukas Luke

Sibling names for Luk

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

For a sister

Cydney Kalie Reilly Reanna Serina Isela Shae Taya

For a brother

Demarco Marquez Ronaldo Tariq Jaren Marshal Samual Jovan

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