Luc is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Luc is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Luc. In the SmartGenius ranking, Luc is #1,761 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Luc.
Luc is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Luc cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #873 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2002. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Luc, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Luc seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Luc was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
66 babies were named Luc in 2022 - that's 1 in 2,445,848 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Luc ranked 1,952 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The odds that a man or boy named Luc lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Luc in 20 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Luc live in California – here, one in 21,951 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 91,716 will turn around if you call his first name Luc.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.1% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With only three letters, the name Luc is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all boys' names starting with an L, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with L that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Larry.
If your name is Luc and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Luc, you can simply say:
Lion
Unicorn
Cat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Luc
Luc
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
U
C
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
U
C
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Luc sounds like this:
