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Lukas

A German and Scandinavian spelling of Łukasz, from the Greek for "from Lucania". Given only to boys and still rare in Poland, though more newborns carried it last year than in most years past.

Lukas Pronunciation

Lukas is pronounced LOO-kahs (/ˈlukas/).

Related names
Łukasz
Alive in 2025
1,431
Newborns 2025
26
National rank
#810

What Lukas means

Where Lukas comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Lukas begins in Greek, in the name Loukas. It points to a place, Lucania, a region of southern Italy, so the plain sense of the name is "from Lucania," one who came from that land. The most famous early bearer was Luke the Evangelist, the physician credited with the third Gospel, and his name traveled with the Christian calendar across Europe.

In German and Scandinavian usage the spelling settled as Lukas, clean and short. Poland kept its own form, Łukasz, with that crossed Ł that marks the name as native. The two are the same name wearing different clothes.

Read a class register in a Polish school and you may find a Lukas beside a Łukasz, the imported form next to the homegrown one. Neither cancels the other. The meaning holds under both spellings: from Lucania, the man from the south.

How many people are named Lukas

1 in 14917 men in Poland is named Lukas. 1,431 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #810 among male names.

People with the name Lukas 2019 → 2025
1,431 +515 since 2019
2020 975 +59
2021 1,039 +64
2022 1,130 +91
2023 1,249 +119
2024 1,339 +90
2025 1,431 +92

Lukas's popularity over time

26 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #465 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2020.

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26 newborns with the name Lukas in 2025
national rank #465 that year

Where Lukas is most popular

Lukas is most popular in Opole, 720% above the national average (14 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+102%) and Silesian (+78%). It is least common in Łódź and Subcarpathian, 57% and 55% below average respectively.

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Lukas as a middle name

Lukas is a first name for 1,431 men in Poland and a middle name for another 570, a 72/28 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 299th, between Melchior (573) and Nicholas (567).

As a first name
1,431
As a middle name
570
first name 72% middle name 28%
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