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Boy's name · #14 in the US (2025) · Trending
99% boys · 1% girls — Luca is also given to girls: 65 in 2025, about 1 in 95 in recent years. Luca →
Luca first appeared in 1915, vanished from the records entirely for 16 years, and since returning in 1960 has climbed back to #14. About 78,000 boys have carried it in all.
Already rising, Luca gained 2,059 US births in 2021, when Pixar’s Luca introduced its young sea-monster hero.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Luca is especially popular in Scotland, New Zealand, and the Netherlands.
#2 in Scotland (2025) · #2 in New Zealand (2025) · #3 in Netherlands (2025) · #4 in England & Wales (2025) · #4 in Australia (NSW) (2025) · #5 in Switzerland (2025) · #7 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #7 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #8 in N. Ireland (2025) · #9 in Germany (2025) · #11 in Ireland (2025) · #14 in Spain (2024) and 11 more.
Among 2,557 notable people named Luca:
Sports figures appear 1.8× more often than among typical names — e.g. Luca Toni, Italian footballer (born 1977).
Together with its spelling variants Luka (#85) and Lucca (#425), Luca would rank around #4 with about 13,400 births last year — the newborns split about 65/29/6 across Luca, Luka, and Lucca.
Similar names: Lucas · Enzo · Leo · Roman · Milo · Bennett
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