Luca

Where Luca comes from

Borrowed from Italian Luca, from Latin Lūcās, from Ancient Greek Λουκᾶς (Loukâs), hypocoristic of Λούκιος (Loúkios) (from Latin Lūcius m) or Λουκανός (Loukanós) or both with -ᾶς (-âs). As a female given name, used in Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian as an equivalent of Lucy (ultimately of same origin, from Latin Lūcia f), but English usage is influenced by the male given name, similar Lucas, Luke, and the feminine ending -a.
— Wiktionary's entry for Luca
  • Italian
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Luca through the years
  1. 1445
    Luca Pacioli born
    Italian father of accounting (*~1445 – †1517)
  2. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,392 among boys with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1977
    Luca Toni born
    Italian association football player
  4. 2025
    Peak, #14
    8,759 babies named Luca, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Italian, borrowed in the 2000s.
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Luca Pacioli · Italian father of accounting (*~1445 – †1517), 1445–1517
  • Luca Toni · Italian association football player, born 1977
  • Luca Signorelli · Italian Renaissance painter, 1450–1523
  • Luca Guadagnino · Italian filmmaker, born 1971
  • Luca Zidane · French-Algerian footballer, born 1998

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.