Lucas
Right now Lucas holds #10 in the country, neither climbing nor fading. It has been on the books since 1881 and never mattered more than it does today; 331,092 bearers and counting.
What Lucas carries
Lucas · Latin
“light”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Lucas’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Lucas, 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.
Lucas since 1881
Lucas peaked in 2017 at #11; #10 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Lucas is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Lucas runs strongest in Rhode Island at 1.44% in 2025, then New Hampshire and Delaware.
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 Lucas
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Luca
#14 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 Lucas
Where does Lucas rank right now?
Right now Lucas holds #10 in the country, neither climbing nor fading. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1881.
What does Lucas mean?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “light”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Lucas?
Nearest by the published recipe: Luca, Lucy and Luke. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
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