Given name & surname · also Latin
Lukáš
“man from Lucania”
Lukáš is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Czech, Old Czech, and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Lukáš goes back to Ancient Greek Λουκᾶς, meaning “man from Lucania.”
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Where it comes from
Lukáš comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Czech usage, Lukáš developed from Λουκᾶς.
Lukáš’s family of names
In Slovak usage, Lukáš has a diminutive in LUK. Lukáš shares a linguistic root with Luke. In Czech usage, Lukáš has a conventional equivalent in the French form Lucas.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Lukáš has relatives in 10 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Lukáš comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 5
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Lukáš
- Lukas HradeckyFinnish footballerborn 1989
- Lukáš KrpálekCzech judokaborn 1990
- Lukáš RosolCzech tennis playerborn 1985
- Lukáš HaraslínSlovak association football playerborn 1996
- Lukáš ProvodCzech association football playerborn 1996
- Lukáš MasopustCzech soccer playerborn 1993
- Lukáš DlouhýCzech tennis playerborn 1983
- Lukáš LackoSlovak tennis playerborn 1987
- Lukáš BauerCzech ski runnerborn 1977
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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