Luka Forename
4,836th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 216,510 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Slovenia
Luka Forename Definition:
Luka is a given name of the Bemba tribe, meaning: luke (Biblical).
Luka Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 100% | 50,398 | 1:3,523 | 622 |
| Sudan | 100% | 17,253 | 1:2,191 | 400 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 15,607 | 1:158 | 12 |
| Georgia | 100% | 13,659 | 1:274 | 52 |
| Zambia | - | 13,427 | 1:1,181 | 262 |
| Croatia | 100% | 12,321 | 1:342 | 89 |
| Uganda | 99% | 11,866 | 1:3,452 | 434 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 10,661 | 1:4,952 | 801 |
| Kenya | 96% | 9,891 | 1:4,682 | 745 |
| Malawi | 99% | 9,201 | 1:1,860 | 359 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 7,933 | 1:1,456 | 307 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 5,961 | 1:591 | 137 |
| Serbia | 100% | 5,672 | 1:1,260 | 247 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 5,289 | 1:2,916 | 521 |
| DR Congo | 93% | 4,232 | 1:17,445 | 1,501 |
| India | 91% | 2,006 | 1:605,622 | 46,058 |
| Ukraine | 94% | 1,910 | 1:23,822 | 380 |
| Egypt | 69% | 1,887 | 1:48,702 | 2,807 |
| Russia | 94% | 1,754 | 1:82,231 | 1,667 |
| Spain | 100% | 1,478 | 1:31,482 | 1,564 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1,452 | 1:437 | 101 |
| South Africa | 97% | 1,295 | 1:42,110 | 4,582 |
| Brazil | 100% | 1,103 | 1:194,230 | 8,768 |
| Poland | 96% | 1,084 | 1:35,080 | 1,050 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 1,044 | 1:233 | 45 |
| Nepal | 56% | 937 | 1:30,403 | 2,605 |
| United States | 87% | 723 | 1:501,434 | 13,217 |
| Germany | 100% | 528 | 1:183,102 | 2,954 |
| Bulgaria | 93% | 405 | 1:17,260 | 1,417 |
| Canada | 100% | 354 | 1:93,597 | 4,878 |
| Austria | 99% | 323 | 1:26,360 | 1,074 |
| Ghana | 100% | 281 | 1:96,036 | 4,158 |
| England | 92% | 271 | 1:205,177 | 6,015 |
| Finland | 100% | 231 | 1:23,737 | 1,213 |
| Papua New Guinea | 77% | 227 | 1:35,913 | 3,549 |
| Albania | 99% | 222 | 1:13,723 | 1,989 |
| Mali | 100% | 221 | 1:76,822 | 3,384 |
| Cameroon | 95% | 220 | 1:98,230 | 5,174 |
| Italy | 100% | 207 | 1:294,986 | 3,702 |
| Netherlands | 89% | 197 | 1:85,797 | 4,715 |
| Thailand | 92% | 176 | 1:398,101 | 20,300 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 170 | 1:48,315 | 2,166 |
| Sweden | 99% | 161 | 1:61,229 | 3,030 |
| Botswana | 100% | 158 | 1:13,826 | 1,833 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 143 | 1:374 | 104 |
| Kazakhstan | 90% | 139 | 1:127,675 | 3,496 |
| New Zealand | - | 132 | 1:34,364 | 2,174 |
| Australia | - | 121 | 1:112,873 | 3,842 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 119 | 1:2,167,762 | 108,967 |
| France | 100% | 114 | 1:583,073 | 5,862 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 108 | 1:18,889 | 2,412 |
| Czechia | 80% | 107 | 1:99,590 | 1,159 |
| Israel | 81% | 82 | 1:102,475 | 4,403 |
| Belgium | 100% | 67 | 1:171,493 | 4,532 |
| Belarus | 97% | 65 | 1:145,883 | 1,391 |
| China | - | 63 | 1:21,683,425 | 60,479 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 63 | 1:33,187 | 2,763 |
| Kosovo | - | 59 | 1:31,550 | 2,911 |
| Japan | - | 53 | 1:2,414,831 | 21,138 |
| Denmark | - | 48 | 1:117,698 | 3,202 |
| Malaysia | 72% | 40 | 1:761,248 | 29,188 |
| Kuwait | - | 38 | 1:99,612 | 6,886 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 37 | 1:193,297 | 12,866 |
| Greece | 100% | 32 | 1:341,705 | 5,459 |
| Latvia | 72% | 29 | 1:69,505 | 1,615 |
| Philippines | 85% | 27 | 1:3,926,277 | 72,833 |
| Chile | 100% | 23 | 1:765,531 | 7,771 |
| Lithuania | - | 23 | 1:128,343 | 1,645 |
| Iran | - | 22 | 1:3,568,039 | 16,388 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 21 | 1:459,188 | 9,802 |
| Argentina | 75% | 15 | 1:2,851,550 | 9,163 |
| Scotland | 100% | 14 | 1:382,169 | 5,277 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 13 | 1:20,782 | 1,589 |
| Norway | 100% | 13 | 1:394,795 | 7,741 |
| Hong Kong | - | 12 | 1:646,060 | 4,783 |
| Moldova | - | 12 | 1:296,762 | 2,284 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 10 | 1:562,757 | 6,675 |
| Qatar | 100% | 10 | 1:236,960 | 22,379 |
| American Samoa | - | 9 | 1:6,205 | 1,322 |
| Hungary | 100% | 9 | 1:1,087,975 | 2,994 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 50% | 9 | 1:663,697 | 17,951 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 9 | 1:590,007 | 2,547 |
| Uzbekistan | - | 9 | 1:3,420,716 | 8,576 |
| Wales | 100% | 9 | 1:343,812 | 5,087 |
| Liberia | 100% | 8 | 1:551,508 | 14,444 |
| Mexico | - | 8 | 1:15,518,053 | 39,880 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 8 | 1:24,294,710 | 113,215 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 8 | 1:72,620 | 4,185 |
| Turkey | 100% | 8 | 1:9,725,214 | 31,896 |
| Burkina Faso | 86% | 7 | 1:2,625,638 | 48,146 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 7 | 1:3,395,669 | 64,613 |
| Estonia | - | 6 | 1:219,230 | 6,245 |
| Iceland | - | 6 | 1:61,003 | 3,164 |
| Singapore | 100% | 6 | 1:1,047,842 | 15,242 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 6 | 1:79,273 | 1,016 |
| Peru | 100% | 5 | 1:6,358,291 | 42,272 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 5 | 1:272,284 | 13,349 |
| Algeria | - | 4 | 1:9,544,180 | 14,095 |
| Armenia | 50% | 4 | 1:729,688 | 7,125 |
| Congo | 100% | 4 | 1:1,252,301 | 19,043 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 4 | 1:2,607,818 | 19,206 |
| Haiti | - | 4 | 1:2,681,738 | 23,796 |
| Libya | - | 4 | 1:1,555,327 | 1,779 |
| Morocco | - | 4 | 1:8,587,159 | 11,086 |
| Mozambique | - | 4 | 1:6,810,839 | 3,114 |
| Namibia | - | 4 | 1:601,045 | 7,837 |
| Portugal | - | 4 | 1:2,602,716 | 8,189 |
| Tajikistan | - | 4 | 1:2,093,730 | 5,016 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Benin | - | 3 | 1:3,525,281 | 51,145 |
| Marshall Islands | 67% | 3 | 1:17,077 | 2,297 |
| Monaco | - | 3 | 1:12,822 | 1,634 |
| Venezuela | - | 3 | 1:10,067,298 | 111,314 |
| Ireland | 80% | 2 | 1:2,321,760 | 8,894 |
| Bolivia | - | 2 | 1:5,300,702 | 6,605 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 2 | 1:8,136,665 | 51,498 |
| Oman | - | 2 | 1:2,054,334 | 8,531 |
| Romania | - | 2 | 1:10,025,988 | 47,037 |
| South Korea | - | 2 | 1:2,772,210 | 27,911 |
| Afghanistan | - | 1 | 1:32,623,516 | 66,536 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 1 | 1:99,395 | 3,544 |
| Bahrain | - | 1 | 1:1,348,673 | 7,854 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Colombia | - | 1 | 1:47,778,926 | 95,497 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Curaçao | - | 1 | 1:155,803 | 1,239 |
| Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Ecuador | - | 1 | 1:17,726,919 | 31,775 |
| Ethiopia | - | 1 | 1:97,560,133 | 29,608 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:49,127 | 2,467 |
| Iraq | - | 1 | 1:35,017,859 | 22,933 |
| Jordan | 100% | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Luxembourg | - | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Panama | - | 1 | 1:3,906,557 | 40,800 |
| Paraguay | - | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
| San Marino | - | 1 | 1:32,920 | 787 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1 | 1:30,812,565 | 27,537 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:109,747 | 4,493 |
The alternate forms: Luká (3) & Lüka (1) are calculated separately.
Luka (155,587) may also be a surname.
Luka Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Luka is a given name of the Bemba tribe, meaning: luke (Biblical).
— The Names of Zambia (2019) by Simboma Mubita Lukama
Luka Forename Popularity
Luka Demographics
Luka Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 133 (2014)
United States
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Luka Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Luka in the Russian language | ||
| Лука | luka | - |
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