Luka
#5,099 for girls in 2025, 25 births · #85 for boys in 2025, 3,873 births
Given to boys 98.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 3,873 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 3 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 28,959since 1975
Luka over time
Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,099 | 25 | #85 | 3,873 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #94 | 3,708 |
| 2023 | #5,248 | 24 | #95 | 3,657 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 | #117 | 3,303 |
| 2021 | #4,326 | 32 | #115 | 3,209 |
| 2020 | #4,453 | 30 | #161 | 2,344 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | #221 | 1,704 |
| 2018 | #4,768 | 28 | #320 | 1,049 |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 | #439 | 707 |
| 2016 | #4,850 | 28 | #471 | 649 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 33 | #524 | 550 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #559 | 494 |
| 2013 | #5,317 | 25 | #586 | 433 |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 | #638 | 375 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | #747 | 303 |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 | #727 | 316 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 | #780 | 291 |
| 2008 | #6,799 | 19 | #775 | 286 |
| 2007 | #7,394 | 17 | #749 | 298 |
| 2006 | — | #809 | 252 | |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | #866 | 212 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | #849 | 209 |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 | #1,060 | 146 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #1,177 | 119 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #1,171 | 117 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #1,429 | 86 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #2,347 | 38 |
| 1998 | — | #2,507 | 34 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,903 | 26 | |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #3,830 | 17 |
| 1995 | — | #3,432 | 19 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,911 | 16 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,141 | 21 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,114 | 14 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,231 | 13 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,993 | 10 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,165 | 9 | |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | #4,968 | 8 |
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| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
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| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
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| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Luka! It came in at #4,797, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Luka is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Colorado#515 · 1 in 3,747
- Washington#584 · 1 in 4,340
- Illinois#591 · 1 in 4,538
- Michigan#598 · 1 in 4,976
- California#657 · 1 in 7,060
Best ever in a state: #17 in Hawaii, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Colorado | #515 | 8 | 1 in 3,747 |
| Washington | #584 | 8 | 1 in 4,340 |
| Illinois | #591 | 17 | 1 in 4,538 |
| Michigan | #598 | 11 | 1 in 4,976 |
| California | #657 | 36 | 1 in 7,060 |
| Ohio | #666 | 10 | 1 in 6,553 |
| Arizona | #667 | 7 | 1 in 6,065 |
| Virginia | #792 | 6 | 1 in 7,178 |
| New York | #817 | 14 | 1 in 7,734 |
| New Jersey | #835 | 6 | 1 in 7,822 |
| Florida | #929 | 11 | 1 in 9,000 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,049 | 5 | 1 in 12,757 |
| Texas | #1,317 | 10 | 1 in 18,111 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Luka
- 9 spots since 2024 (#94 → #85)
- 76 spots since 2020 (#161 → #85)
- 439 spots since 2015 (#524 → #85)
- Biggest jump: 211 spots in 2004 (#1,060 → #849)
- Biggest drop: 26 spots in 2008 (#749 → #775)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2025 at #85 (3,873 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 3 yrs · run 2023–2025
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 2004–2025
- Highest: 1 in 441 boys born in 2025 were named Luka (0.23%)
- 69.4% of all boys named Luka (20,094) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 18 | #4,797 (1975) | #4,930 |
| 1980s | 43 | #4,968 (1987) | #5,342 |
| 1990s | 208 | #2,347 (1999) | #3,541 |
| 2000s | 2,016 | #749 (2007) | #967 |
| 2010s | 6,580 | #221 (2019) | #523 |
| 2020s | 20,094 | #85 (2025) | #111 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Luka in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 92,392 of them was named Luka, which outranked 68.8% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,800Zakayla21
- #5,800Zuzanna21
- #5,800Zynia21
- #5,999Luka20
- #5,999Aariana20
- #5,999Aariona20
- #5,999Aasiyah20
- #6,245Aamina19
- #6,245Aamiyah19
- #6,245Aaniya19
Tied with 245 names at #5,999; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 9,421 of them was named Luka, which outranked 93.5% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).