Lukas

Where Lukas comes from

Borrowed from Latin Lucas (“a man from Lucania”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Lukas
  • Latin
Along the way
  1. 1963
    First appearance
    #3,318 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1985
    Lukas Podolski born
    German association football player
  3. 1996
    Lukas Klostermann born
    German association football player
  4. 2019
    Peak, #214
    1,787 babies named Lukas — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Lucas.
Namesakes
  • Lukas Podolski · German association football player, born 1985
  • Lukas Klostermann · German association football player, born 1996
  • Lukas Moodysson · Swedish writer and film director, born 1969
  • Lukas Lerager · Danish association football player, born 1993
  • Lukas Haas · American actor, born 1976

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.