Lukáš
The Czech and Slovak spelling of Łukasz, from Greek Loukas and the light the Romans heard in Latin lux. In Poland this form stays rare: around 168 men carry it, and almost no newborn gets it.
Lukáš Pronunciation
Lukáš is pronounced LOOKÁŠ (/lukáš/).
What Lukáš means
Where Lukáš comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lukáš is the Czech and Slovak form of the name Poland writes as Łukasz. Its root runs back to Greek Loukas, tied in turn to the Latin Lucanus, meaning a man from Lucania in southern Italy. The link to light came later. Latin speakers heard lux inside the name, and the sense of światłość, of jasność, settled onto it over time.
The best-documented Loukas was the Evangelist, the physician credited with the third Gospel. His name travelled with the Church, and each language reshaped it. Poland kept Łukasz. The Czechs and Slovaks say Lukáš, the accent stretching the last syllable long.
Saint Luke's feast falls on 18 October, so a boy named Łukasz marks his imieniny then, often as the class register is read out at school. The cross-gender form is Łucja, and there the sense of light sits closer to the surface. Whether a family reaches for Lukáš, Łukasz, or Łucja, the same root holds underneath: Lucania, and the lux the Romans heard in it.
How many people are named Lukáš
1 in 127061 men in Poland is named Lukáš. 168 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2477 among male names.
Lukáš's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Lukáš as a middle name
Lukáš is a first name for 168 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 98/2 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5578th, between Ludgier (4) and Lutomir (4).
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