Luka
For 2025 the count puts Luka at #85 nationwide, and gathering speed. The record does not even know it before 1975; since then, 28,959 American children.
What Luka carries
Luka · Latin
“light”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Luka’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Luka, 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.
Luka since 1975
Luka is at its all-time peak right now: #85 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Luka is most common
The state that gives Luka most often, per boys born there, is Alaska (0.62% in 2025); South Dakota and Hawaii are close behind.
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 Luka
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Lucia
#83 in 2025 · Latin
Luke
#33 in 2025 · Latin
Lucy
#25 in 2025 · Latin
Luca
#14 in 2025 · Latin
Lucas
#10 in 2025 · Latin
August
#81 in 2025 · Latin
Silas
#71 in 2025 · Latin
Claire
#68 in 2025 · Latin
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About Luka
How common is Luka today?
For 2025 the count puts Luka at #85 nationwide, and gathering speed. The chart above draws the whole run since 1975, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
Does Luka have a meaning on record?
The gloss on record reads “light”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Luka?
Lucia, Luke and Lucy sit nearest to Luka on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
Get Luka’s free Name Kit
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