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/).
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.
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.
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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Opole14 boys born+720%
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Lesser Poland17 boys born+102%
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Silesian15 boys born+78%
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Warmian-Masurian4 boys born+51%
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Lublin4 boys born+5%
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Lower Silesian6 boys born+3%
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West Pomeranian3 boys born−4%
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Podlaskie2 boys born−18%
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Masovian7 boys born−47%
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Greater Poland4 boys born−50%
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Subcarpathian2 boys born−55%
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Łódź2 boys born−57%
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).
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297
578Narcyz
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298
573Melchior
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299570Lukas
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300
567Nicholas
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301
566Justyn