Luc

Where Luc comes from

Luc hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1932
    Luc Montagnier born
    French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine
  2. 1949
    First appearance
    #3,690 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1959
    Luc Besson born
    French filmmaker
  4. 2002
    Peak, #930
    172 babies named Luc — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,826.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Luc Besson · French filmmaker, born 1959
  • Luc Montagnier · French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine, 1932–2022
  • Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues · French writer, a moralist, 1715–1747
  • Luc Frieden · Prime Minister of Luxembourg since 2023, born 1963
  • Luc Abalo · French handball player, born 1984

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.