Given name & surname · also Latin
Luukas
Luukas is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Finnish and Estonian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Luukas comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Luukas developed from Λουκᾶς.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2006. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Luukas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 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 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Luukas’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Luukas developed from the Ancient Greek form Λουκᾶς. In Finnish usage, Luukas has a conventional equivalent in the English form Luke. In Estonian usage, Luukas has a conventional equivalent in the French form Lucas.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Luukas has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Luukas comes from · 1 name
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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People named Luukas
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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