Primarily a boy's name · 98% boys
Origin: ItalianLuca is a masculine given name used mainly in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Romania, and Latin America. It is derived from the Latin name Lucas. It may also come from the Latin word "lucus" meaning "sacred wood". Luca has risen in popularity as a name for boys in other countries.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Luca yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Luca is the fastest-growing name in this batch by a wide margin: 245% higher than a decade earlier, with both its raw count and its rank hitting new highs in the same year, 2024 — 7,959 births, its best ever, at #23 nationally, with no sign yet of a peak behind it.
Its history is unusually broken up: first recorded in 1915, with activity that then skips the 1930s and 1950s entirely — two full decades with fewer than five US births — before resuming and eventually taking off in the 2010s and 2020s. Few names in this range show that kind of on-again, off-again presence across a century of data.
Its famous bearers lean heavily Italian and historical — Renaissance mathematician Luca Pacioli, painter Luca Signorelli — alongside recent figures like director Luca Guadagnino and footballer Luca Toni, a spread that tracks the name's Italian origin more closely than most of its English-origin neighbors in this batch.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1915 | 6 | #3,670 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,375 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,808 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,546 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,692 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,343 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,602 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,588 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,971 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,145 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,847 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,905 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,225 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,561 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,524 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,795 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,539 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,366 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,262 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,065 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,601 |
| 1976 | 26 | #1,911 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,505 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,441 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,520 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,364 |
| 1981 | 32 | #1,793 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,482 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,183 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,588 |
| 1985 | 24 | #2,267 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,570 |
| 1987 | 34 | #1,886 |
| 1988 | 38 | #1,809 |
| 1989 | 36 | #2,014 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,244 |
| 1991 | 38 | #2,000 |
| 1992 | 44 | #1,866 |
| 1993 | 65 | #1,454 |
| 1994 | 62 | #1,525 |
| 1995 | 66 | #1,473 |
| 1996 | 87 | #1,272 |
| 1997 | 82 | #1,359 |
| 1998 | 115 | #1,118 |
| 1999 | 128 | #1,066 |
| 2000 | 297 | #626 |
| 2001 | 342 | #586 |
| 2002 | 430 | #525 |
| 2003 | 544 | #463 |
| 2004 | 686 | #393 |
| 2005 | 707 | #400 |
| 2006 | 872 | #348 |
| 2007 | 1,056 | #312 |
| 2008 | 1,097 | #305 |
| 2009 | 1,199 | #281 |
| 2010 | 1,275 | #272 |
| 2011 | 1,340 | #260 |
| 2012 | 1,617 | #223 |
| 2013 | 1,902 | #201 |
| 2014 | 2,304 | #185 |
| 2015 | 2,617 | #157 |
| 2016 | 2,755 | #151 |
| 2017 | 3,091 | #130 |
| 2018 | 3,614 | #106 |
| 2019 | 4,421 | #87 |
| 2020 | 4,831 | #67 |
| 2021 | 6,888 | #42 |
| 2022 | 7,848 | #28 |
| 2023 | 7,804 | #24 |
| 2024 | 7,959 | #23 |
