In German and Dutch, Lukas is the spelling of the name Lucas. This name has a Latin origin, either meaning ‘from Lucania’, a region in southern Italy, or ‘light’ from the verb ‘lucere’ (‘to shine’).
Lukas is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Lukas 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, Lukas ranks 224. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 9 were named Lukas. In the entire USA, approximately 38,206 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lukas. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Lukas is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Lukas cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #207 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2019. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Lukas, 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, Lukas 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 Lukas was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
1,468 babies were named Lukas in 2022 - that's 1 in 109,963 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Lukas ranked 231 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Lukas 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 Lukas 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, Lukas 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 38,199 men and boys of all generations bear the name Lukas – that is one in 4,370. 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 Lukas, while it is particularly rare in Vermont, where you have to ask an average of 24,715 men for their name to get Lukas 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 five letters, the name Lukas is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 Lukas 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 Lukas, you can simply say:
Lion
Unicorn
Koala
Apple
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lukas
Lukas
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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U
K
A
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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.
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U
K
A
S
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. Lukas sounds like this:
