Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lukacs through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2005. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 937 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lukacs’s family of names
Lukacs shares a linguistic root with Luke. In English usage, Lukacs as a surname was borrowed from the Hungarian form Lukács. In Greek usage, Lukacs as a surname is a transliteration of Λούκατς.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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