Luca is derived from the Latin name Lucas, meaning “bringer of light.” Some people also believe the name may be derived from the Latin word “lucus”, which means “sacred wood.”
Luca is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Luca isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Luca ranks 101. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 22 were named Luca. In the entire USA, approximately 51,779 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Luca. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Luca is derived from the Latin name Lucas, meaning “bringer of light.” Some people also believe the name may be derived from the Latin word “lucus”, which means “sacred wood.”
Did you know... in Italy, Lucas might also mean “man from Luciana,” in reference to an ancient district in southern Italy?
Luca Toni (*1977)
The former Italian professional soccer player rose to fame as a prolific goalscorer with over 300 documented goals. This makes him one of the top-five highest scoring Italians in all competitions. Astonishingly, Toni's breakthrough came rather late when he played for Palerma in the season of 2003/04. Initially, he played in the second and third league for several years.
Luca Giordano (1643 - 1705)
In late-Baroque Luca Giordano acquired renown as a painter and printmaker in etching. He was particularly successful in Naples, Rome, Florence and Venice but also spent some time in Spain. Giordano has been called the 'ideal roccoco painter' for his prolific tradesmanship of many different styles. One of his most notable works is the oil painting 'Venus and Mars' (c. 1670s).
Luca Pacioli (c. 1445 - c. 1517)
The mathematician and Franciscan friar Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli has been a collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci. Today, he is considered as the 'father of accounting and bookkeeping' as he was the first to completely describe double-entry bookkeeping (1494).
Luca Paguro
Luca is the main character of Pixar's eponymous computer-animated coming-of-age fantasy film from 2021. In the story the audience follows the young sea monster boy Luca Paguro exploring the town of Portorosso while experiencing a life-changing summer adventure.
When you hear the name Luca, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Luca? Are you also called Luca? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
In Venice, Italy, you can find the church of San Luca Evangelista. Its origins date back to the 11th century.
there is a representative body for university athletics whose abbreviation is Luca. It stands for London Universities and Colleges Athletics.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Luca occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Luca is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Luca is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 51,256 men and boys of all generations bear the name Luca – that is one in 3,257. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Nevada, where one in 400 men and boys is called Luca, while it is particularly rare in Mississippi, where you have to ask an average of 27,025 men for their name to get Luca as an answer once.
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 four letters, the name Luca is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Luca 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 Luca, you can simply say:
Lion
Unicorn
Cat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Luca
Luca
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
U
C
A
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
A
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. Luca sounds like this:
