Lukes

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lukes has been given to 57 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1997, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Lukes, 2017

1 in 596,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lukes: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lukes means

Lukes is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lukes is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 57 boys were recorded with the name Lukes between 1979 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1997; its best national rank was #6,663 in 1979.

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 Lukes?

Lukes had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017: 1 in 596,000; 6 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only: 1 in 308,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 413,245 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lukes 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 2017 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lukes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lukess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lukes was born before 2006 — so the typical Lukes is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 38.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 80.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 57; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 38.6% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Lukes 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 1997 (7)
Years since peak: 28; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,663; 1979

Spellings of Lukes

Lukes is not the most common spelling — Lucas is, with 31.2% against Lukes's <0.01%.

Lucas31.2%331,092
Luke30.4%323,020
Luis27.6%292,959
Lukas4.1%44,053
Luka2.7%28,959
Duke1.1%11,595
Jules0.88%9,383
Lupe0.57%6,025

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.

Lukes 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: #6,663; 1979
Peak year: 1997; 7 that year
First recorded: 1979
Last recorded: 2017
All-time count: 57
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lukes

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

Lukai Lukian Lukka Lukyan Luken Lukan Lukaz Lukis Lukin Lukah Lukus Oakes Lukman Stokes Lukkas Lukasz Lukeus Fawkes Wilkes Lukasey Markes Lukacs Lukaus Luk

Sibling names for Lukes

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

Dasia Yasmeen Bryana Star Iman Cydney Kalie Reilly

For a brother

Samual Stephon Austyn Claudio Demarco Marquez Dontae Ronaldo

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