Luca
Luca ranks #14 in the United States in 2025, and gathering speed. First recorded 1915, best year 2025, 77,521 bearers across the whole run.
What Luca carries
Luca · Latin
“light”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Luca’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Luca, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Luca since 1915
Luca is at its all-time peak right now: #14 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Luca is most common
Among the states, Luca takes its largest share in Rhode Island, 1.54% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with Hawaii and Connecticut next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Luca
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Lucas
#10 in 2025 · Latin
Lucy
#25 in 2025 · Latin
Luke
#33 in 2025 · Latin
Lucia
#83 in 2025 · Latin
Luka
#85 in 2025 · Latin
Violet
#13 in 2025 · Latin
Nora
#20 in 2025 · Latin
Julian
#25 in 2025 · Latin
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About Luca
How popular is the name Luca?
Luca ranks #14 in the United States in 2025, and gathering speed. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1915.
What is the recorded meaning of Luca?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “light”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Luca?
Lucas, Lucy and Luke sit nearest to Luca on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
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