first name
LUKE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 267,180 people named Luke, 82.9% reported their origin as White, 7.8% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.5% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Luke peaked in 2014, when 10,536 babies got the name.
At least 323,585 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Luke by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #46. The largest share of babies named Luke, 41.3%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Luke is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Luke has been most common in Alaska (2.1×), Utah (1.8×), and Nevada (1.7×), and least common in Mississippi (0.54×).
318,600 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Luke
Spelled almost the same
3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Luke, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Luke ranks #2,036 of 156,621, with 17,362 people. See Luke as a last name
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