Łukasz
Around 383,000 Polish men carry it, yet it's fading fast: just 174 boys got the name last year. A Greek name at root, meaning "from Lucania".
Łukasz Pronunciation
Łukasz is pronounced WOO-kahsh (/ˈwukaʂ/).
What Łukasz means
Where Łukasz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Łukasz comes from Greek Loukas, a short form that scholars trace back to Latin Lucanus, "man from Lucania," a region in the south of old Italy. The plain sense recorded for it is simply "from Lucania." So the name began as a marker of place, a way of saying where a person belonged before it said anything about who they were.
Its closest relative is the variant Lukas, worn across much of Europe with only a shift of spelling. One early bearer sealed the name's fortune: Luke the Evangelist, author of a Gospel and patron of physicians and painters. His feast on 18 October became the Polish imieniny for every Łukasz, and it holds that place still.
For centuries the name stayed common and unfussy. Read a school register in any Polish town. You will find a Łukasz near the top, sometimes two. The place-name meaning slipped from daily view long ago, yet it sits there in the record, "pochodzący z Lukanii," the man from Lucania.
When Łukasz celebrates name day
Łukasz appears 8 times in the Polish name day calendar, 3 of them as a main name, the first on 17 February.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Łukasz
1 in 56 men in Poland is named Łukasz. 382,952 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #23 among male names.
Łukasz's popularity over time
174 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #200 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #23 name among living men, even as it slips to #200 among newborns.
Where parents choose Łukasz
Łukasz is most popular in Opole, 115% above the national average (103 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+41%) and Warmian-Masurian (+18%). It is least common in Holy Cross and Greater Poland, 36% and 28% below average respectively.
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Opole
+115%1 in 448 babies
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Silesian
+41%1 in 681 babies
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Warmian-Masurian
+18%1 in 816 babies
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Holy Cross
−36%1 in 1,498 babies
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Greater Poland
−28%1 in 1,329 babies
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Łódź
−23%1 in 1,255 babies
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Opole+115% 103 born1 in 448 babies+115%
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Silesian+41% 334 born1 in 681 babies+41%
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Warmian-Masurian+18% 88 born1 in 816 babies+18%
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Podlaskie+17% 80 born1 in 822 babies+17%
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Pomeranian+9% 167 born1 in 882 babies+9%
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Lublin+7% 114 born1 in 901 babies+7%
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Lesser Poland+2% 241 born1 in 942 babies+2%
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West Pomeranian+1% 89 born1 in 949 babies+1%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian±0% 114 born1 in 959 babies±0%
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Lower Silesian−1% 162 born1 in 970 babies−1%
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Lubusz−5% 49 born1 in 1,013 babies−5%
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Subcarpathian−8% 115 born1 in 1,048 babies−8%
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Masovian−20% 294 born1 in 1,205 babies−20%
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Łódź−23% 101 born1 in 1,255 babies−23%
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Greater Poland−28% 162 born1 in 1,329 babies−28%
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Holy Cross−36% 37 born1 in 1,498 babies−36%
Łukasz as a middle name
Łukasz is a first name for 382,952 men in Poland and a middle name for another 174,086, a 69/31 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 16th, between Wojciech (189,825) and Kazimierz (165,333).
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#14 Marcin190,107
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#15 Wojciech189,825
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#16 Łukasz174,086
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#17 Kazimierz165,333
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#18 Tadeusz165,202