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Lukman

Boys' name

From Arabic لُقْمَان; literal meaning unconfirmed

Lukman has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 2002. 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 2012, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Lukman, 2018

1 in 703,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lukman: meaning, origin, and history

From Arabic لُقْمَان; literal meaning unconfirmed

Arabic

What Lukman means

Lukman is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lukman is used in Indonesian. Its origins include Arabic.

Lukman comes through Arabic لُقْمَان.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Lukman between 2002 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2012; its best national rank was #10,360 in 2012.

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 Lukman?

Lukman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 363,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lukman 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lukman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lukmans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lukman was born before 2012 — so the typical Lukman is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
70.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 70.6% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Lukman 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
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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 2012 (7)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#10,360
2012

Spellings of Lukman

Lukman is not the most common spelling — Lukas is, with 41.9% against Lukman's 0.02%.

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.

Lukman around the world

Where Lukman 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
    1996–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    2004–2023
    #6,621
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2000–2000
    #556
    in 2000

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

Lukman 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
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Best rank ever
#10,360
2012
Peak year
2012
7 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lukman

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

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Sibling names for Lukman

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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