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Luuk

Boys' name

English equivalent of Luke

Luuk has been given to 19 babies in the U.S. since 2021. 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 2021, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Luuk, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Luuk: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Luke

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Luuk means

Luuk is a English equivalent of Luke.

Origin, language, and formation

Luuk is used in Dutch.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Luke.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Luuk is pronounced /lyk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 19 boys were recorded with the name Luuk between 2021 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2021; its best national rank was #10,370 in 2021.

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 Luuk?

Luuk had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Luuk 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Luuk. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Luuks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Luuk was born before 2023 — so the typical Luuk is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
19
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Luuk 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 2021 (7)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,370
2021

Spellings of Luuk

Luuk is not the most common spelling — Luke is, with 42.4% against Luuk's <0.01%.

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.

Luuk around the world

Where Luuk 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
    2007–2019
    #3,937
    in 2019
  • France
    2005–2005
    #4,081
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Luuk 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
#10,370
2021
Peak year
2021
7 that year
First recorded
2021
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
19
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Luuk

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

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Sibling names for Luuk

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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