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Boy's name · #85 in the US (2025) · Trending
Luka is moving up the charts. First recorded in 1975, it stood at #85 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet; about 29,000 boys have been named Luka along the way.
US births of Luka rose from 707 in 2017 to 1,704 in 2019, as basketball player Luka Dončić entered the NBA and won Rookie of the Year.
See where Luka is more common.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 50 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Luka is especially popular in Croatia, Slovenia, and Serbia.
#1 in Croatia (2025) · #2 in Slovenia (2025) · #3 in Serbia (2025) · #3 in Bosnia (Rep. Srpska) (2025) · #21 in Bosnia (FBiH) (2025) · #27 in Finland (other-lang.) (2025) · #37 in Finland (Finnish-sp.) (2025) · #42 in Austria (2025) · #43 in New Zealand (2025) · #64 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #68 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #69 in Switzerland (2025) and 16 more.
Among 838 notable people named Luka:
Sports figures appear 3.02× more often than among typical names — e.g. Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer (born 1985).
Together with its spelling variants Luca (#14) and Lucca (#425), Luka 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: Lucca · Enzo · Luciano · Milo · Niko · Atlas
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