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Luken

#5,517 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Lucianus

Luken has been given to 294 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #5,517 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Luken, 2025

1 in 195,000

Luken over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Luken: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Lucianus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Luken means

Luken is a form of Lucianus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lucianus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 294 boys were recorded with the name Luken between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2009; its best national rank was #4,525 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,307 in 2020 to #5,517 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,191 in 2015 to #5,517 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.

How common is Luken?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,517
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Luken 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Luken. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lukens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Luken was born before 2015 — so the typical Luken is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
294
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Choose a decade

2010s — 48.0% of all recorded uses (141).

Is Luken 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
+1,165
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,790
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−326
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.94×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.3%
Peak was 2009 (22)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,525
2009

Spellings of Luken

Luken is not the most common spelling — Luke is, with 50.0% against Luken's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Luken is used

Across 1910–2025, Luken was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Luken has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Luken around the world

Where Luken 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
    2006–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1998–2025
    #2,217
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2005–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Luken by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,517
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,790
Best rank ever
#4,525
2009
Peak year
2009
22 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
294
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Luken

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

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Sibling names for Luken

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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