Luukas

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Greek origin

Luukas has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2006. 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 2006, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Luukas, 2006

1 in 791,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Luukas: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Greek origin

Greek

What Luukas means

Luukas is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Luukas is used in Estonian and Finnish. Its origins include Greek.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Luukas is pronounced /ˈluːkɑs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Luukas between 2006 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2006; its best national rank was #13,243 in 2006.

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 Luukas?

Luukas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006: 1 in 791,000; 5 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only: 1 in 411,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 548,442 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Luukas 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 2006 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 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Luukas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Luukass were born

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

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Luukas 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 2006 (5)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #13,243; 2006

Spellings of Luukas

Luukas is not the most common spelling — Lucas is, with 81.3% against Luukas's <0.01%.

Lucas81.3%331,092
Lukas10.8%44,053
Luka7.1%28,959
Lukus0.24%980
Lukah0.20%833
Lukasz0.17%711
Loukas0.16%666
Luukas<0.01%5

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.

Luukas 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: #13,243; 2006
Peak year: 2006; 5 that year
First recorded: 2006
Last recorded: 2006
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Luukas

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

Luu Lukkas Luuk Demarkas Ekas Rokas Luckas Dominykas Markas Loukas Kas Vikas Lukas

Sibling names for Luukas

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

Taniya Melia Jazmyne Jayna Nyasia Tayla Estefany Sanaa

For a brother

Paulo Yair Tye Deshaun Oswaldo Nathen Britton Mauro

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