Luc
Latin at root, carried into French, with a bright meaning: "light". You'd have to search to meet a Luc in Poland, where the name stays firmly outside everyday use and draws almost no newborns.
Luc Pronunciation
Luc is pronounced LOOTS (/lut͡s/).
What Luc means
Where Luc comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Luc begins in Latin, in the word lux, which meant light. The Romans used lux for daylight and for the small flame of an oil lamp. French speakers drew the name from that root and kept it to a single syllable.
The name belongs to Saint Luc, the evangelist. His Gospel gives the account of the shepherds and the Nativity, and his feast falls on 18 October. French families named Luc have long counted that date as their own.
Luc holds to its one meaning without decoration. The sense is simple. There is no later gloss added by custom, nothing that needs unpicking. It is light, exactly what Latin handed to lux two thousand years ago.
How many people are named Luc
1 in 213462 men in Poland is named Luc. 100 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3457 among male names.
Luc as a middle name
Luc is a first name for 100 men in Poland and a middle name for another 65, a 61/39 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 899th, between Julio (65) and Oton (65).
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#897 Gabor65
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#898 Julio65
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#899 Luc65
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#900 Oton65
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#901 Sylwin65