Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys
Origin: FrenchLucas is a multilingual masculine given name of Latin origin. It is derived from the Latin verb "lucere", meaning "to shine". Lucas is used as a given name in Greek, English, Spanish, French, Dutch, and Portuguese.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Lucas yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Lucas has had one of the more gradual, low-volatility trajectories in this batch: it peaked in 2017 at 13,029 births. Ten years on, 10,703 births in 2024 puts it just 12% below that mark — a smaller pullback than most of its early-2010s-peaking peers like Isabella or Sophia, holding at #9 nationally.
The name dates back to 1881 in SSA records and has been present in every decade since, longer continuous use than several other names currently ranked above it, like Theodore or Mateo, even though it now sits slightly lower on the chart.
Its famous-bearer list includes figures across thirteen centuries of use — Luke the Evangelist's association at one end, contemporary footballers Lucas Vázquez and Lucas Hernández at the other — with Lucas Cranach the Elder's Renaissance-era art in between, a name that has apparently never gone fully out of circulation long enough to become strongly associated with any single era.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1881 | 11 | #550 |
| 1883 | 5 | #988 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,067 |
| 1885 | 6 | #892 |
| 1886 | 8 | #731 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,002 |
| 1891 | 8 | #742 |
| 1892 | 10 | #724 |
| 1893 | 10 | #684 |
| 1894 | 8 | #832 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,040 |
| 1896 | 7 | #944 |
| 1898 | 8 | #856 |
| 1899 | 10 | #688 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,095 |
| 1903 | 7 | #976 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,149 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,348 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,072 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,465 |
| 1908 | 9 | #995 |
| 1909 | 10 | #994 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,016 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,482 |
| 1912 | 22 | #982 |
| 1913 | 27 | #960 |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,146 |
| 1915 | 41 | #989 |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,148 |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,144 |
| 1918 | 52 | #929 |
| 1919 | 32 | #1,257 |
| 1920 | 41 | #1,114 |
| 1921 | 44 | #1,064 |
| 1922 | 37 | #1,189 |
| 1923 | 50 | #989 |
| 1924 | 49 | #1,012 |
| 1925 | 36 | #1,195 |
| 1926 | 40 | #1,140 |
| 1927 | 36 | #1,219 |
| 1928 | 38 | #1,159 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,256 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,321 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,351 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,369 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,438 |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,373 |
| 1935 | 33 | #1,155 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,488 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,333 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,722 |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,311 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,605 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,396 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,567 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,513 |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,250 |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,366 |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,320 |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,265 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,370 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,487 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,521 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,445 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,288 |
| 1953 | 22 | #1,659 |
| 1954 | 20 | #1,742 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,330 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,326 |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,423 |
| 1958 | 52 | #1,066 |
| 1959 | 62 | #984 |
| 1960 | 78 | #864 |
| 1961 | 90 | #806 |
| 1962 | 86 | #821 |
| 1963 | 74 | #874 |
| 1964 | 90 | #796 |
| 1965 | 81 | #823 |
| 1966 | 80 | #816 |
| 1967 | 59 | #946 |
| 1968 | 98 | #750 |
| 1969 | 122 | #708 |
| 1970 | 160 | #645 |
| 1971 | 200 | #577 |
| 1972 | 230 | #519 |
| 1973 | 305 | #449 |
| 1974 | 565 | #319 |
| 1975 | 892 | #229 |
| 1976 | 877 | #231 |
| 1977 | 1,099 | #205 |
| 1978 | 1,954 | #136 |
| 1979 | 2,542 | #108 |
| 1980 | 3,081 | #98 |
| 1981 | 3,372 | #88 |
| 1982 | 2,739 | #106 |
| 1983 | 2,359 | #117 |
| 1984 | 2,116 | #130 |
| 1985 | 2,318 | #122 |
| 1986 | 2,198 | #126 |
| 1987 | 2,328 | #121 |
| 1988 | 2,715 | #113 |
| 1989 | 2,861 | #114 |
| 1990 | 3,089 | #112 |
| 1991 | 3,241 | #107 |
| 1992 | 3,378 | #106 |
| 1993 | 3,924 | #95 |
| 1994 | 4,009 | #95 |
| 1995 | 4,086 | #91 |
| 1996 | 4,106 | #93 |
| 1997 | 4,034 | #98 |
| 1998 | 4,091 | #93 |
| 1999 | 4,220 | #90 |
| 2000 | 4,818 | #83 |
| 2001 | 4,900 | #83 |
| 2002 | 5,381 | #75 |
| 2003 | 5,755 | #71 |
| 2004 | 6,716 | #66 |
| 2005 | 7,578 | #58 |
| 2006 | 8,139 | #59 |
| 2007 | 8,759 | #53 |
| 2008 | 9,328 | #46 |
| 2009 | 9,619 | #39 |
| 2010 | 10,386 | #35 |
| 2011 | 10,405 | #29 |
| 2012 | 10,717 | #27 |
| 2013 | 11,558 | #23 |
| 2014 | 12,174 | #19 |
| 2015 | 12,329 | #16 |
| 2016 | 12,904 | #14 |
| 2017 | 13,029 | #11 |
| 2018 | 12,659 | #8 |
| 2019 | 12,478 | #8 |
| 2020 | 11,381 | #8 |
| 2021 | 11,582 | #8 |
| 2022 | 10,962 | #8 |
| 2023 | 10,882 | #9 |
| 2024 | 10,703 | #9 |
