Luke Surname
Approximately 80,019 people bear this surname
Luke Surname Definition:
i) Bapt. 'the son of Luke.' Lucas was the more popular form. Yet the diminutives seem formed from Luke; v. Luckett, Luckin, and Luccock. (2) Local, 'of Luke,' i.e. Liege. For further proof, v. Luck (a).
Lucas de Luk, London, 1273.
Read More About This SurnameLuke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 23,631 | 1:15,338 | 1,941 |
| Nigeria | 12,283 | 1:14,422 | 1,431 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9,305 | 1:876 | 25 |
| South Sudan | 5,284 | 1:2,160 | 418 |
| England | 4,673 | 1:11,923 | 1,753 |
| Australia | 4,526 | 1:5,965 | 872 |
| Malawi | 2,640 | 1:6,485 | 933 |
| Ghana | 1,732 | 1:15,601 | 2,007 |
| Canada | 1,531 | 1:24,066 | 3,271 |
| South Africa | 1,480 | 1:36,607 | 4,696 |
| Egypt | 1,037 | 1:88,656 | 7,732 |
| India | 901 | 1:851,349 | 37,536 |
| New Zealand | 738 | 1:6,136 | 1,031 |
| Kenya | 637 | 1:72,496 | 6,822 |
| Sri Lanka | 585 | 1:35,570 | 4,375 |
| Germany | 531 | 1:151,611 | 18,178 |
| Scotland | 468 | 1:11,440 | 1,545 |
| Lebanon | 461 | 1:12,228 | 1,758 |
| Iraq | 435 | 1:80,510 | 2,624 |
| Wales | 398 | 1:7,775 | 866 |
| Hong Kong | 394 | 1:18,618 | 428 |
| Vanuatu | 393 | 1:670 | 148 |
| Guyana | 384 | 1:1,985 | 354 |
| Jamaica | 366 | 1:7,841 | 916 |
| Saudi Arabia | 358 | 1:86,189 | 12,374 |
| DR Congo | 322 | 1:229,440 | 22,327 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 313 | 1:4,358 | 717 |
| Liberia | 288 | 1:15,307 | 1,601 |
| Dominica | 255 | 1:298 | 77 |
| Indonesia | 194 | 1:681,697 | 53,131 |
| Northern Ireland | 193 | 1:9,560 | 1,536 |
| Malaysia | 174 | 1:169,507 | 10,320 |
| Mexico | 142 | 1:874,128 | 12,199 |
| Botswana | 138 | 1:15,847 | 3,103 |
| Barbados | 132 | 1:2,178 | 391 |
| United Arab Emirates | 127 | 1:72,144 | 6,726 |
| Fiji | 126 | 1:7,098 | 1,425 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 123 | 1:806 | 138 |
| Chile | 123 | 1:143,223 | 4,985 |
| France | 123 | 1:540,022 | 73,838 |
| Solomon Islands | 108 | 1:5,371 | 734 |
| Zimbabwe | 105 | 1:147,031 | 18,799 |
| China | 91 | 1:15,025,512 | 882 |
| Singapore | 90 | 1:61,197 | 2,397 |
| Albania | 88 | 1:33,114 | 5,012 |
| Netherlands | 83 | 1:203,460 | 28,061 |
| Marshall Islands | 77 | 1:673 | 148 |
| Spain | 70 | 1:667,886 | 29,788 |
| Bahrain | 59 | 1:22,858 | 4,582 |
| Iran | 57 | 1:1,347,062 | 55,719 |
| Ireland | 52 | 1:90,557 | 5,084 |
| Taiwan | 52 | 1:450,860 | 3,427 |
| Brazil | 50 | 1:4,281,487 | 114,765 |
| Thailand | 50 | 1:1,412,767 | 195,138 |
| Sudan | 49 | 1:765,514 | 2,614 |
| Kuwait | 48 | 1:79,181 | 9,331 |
| Czechia | 46 | 1:231,162 | 32,089 |
| Philippines | 43 | 1:2,354,377 | 127,644 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 43 | 1:2,567 | 442 |
| Micronesia | 42 | 1:2,530 | 468 |
| Croatia | 40 | 1:105,715 | 16,512 |
| Denmark | 40 | 1:141,118 | 12,512 |
| Turkey | 40 | 1:1,945,536 | 68,232 |
| Dominican Republic | 39 | 1:267,511 | 9,432 |
| Honduras | 37 | 1:238,282 | 2,434 |
| Russia | 36 | 1:4,003,418 | 194,829 |
| Norway | 30 | 1:171,410 | 20,526 |
| Syria | 29 | 1:665,552 | 5,809 |
| Latvia | 28 | 1:73,216 | 10,778 |
| Nicaragua | 28 | 1:215,039 | 2,611 |
| Portugal | 28 | 1:372,080 | 12,265 |
| Italy | 24 | 1:2,548,195 | 95,018 |
| Uganda | 24 | 1:1,626,637 | 57,482 |
| Colombia | 23 | 1:2,077,134 | 12,400 |
| Estonia | 23 | 1:57,470 | 10,794 |
| Panama | 22 | 1:177,830 | 5,396 |
| Switzerland | 19 | 1:432,259 | 31,718 |
| Afghanistan | 13 | 1:2,473,322 | 16,278 |
| Argentina | 12 | 1:3,561,951 | 138,643 |
| Jersey | 12 | 1:8,267 | 1,718 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 11 | 1:10,242 | 786 |
| Vietnam | 11 | 1:8,422,369 | 2,636 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Sierra Leone | 9 | 1:787,737 | 678 |
| Togo | 9 | 1:805,308 | 6,372 |
| Zambia | 9 | 1:1,761,102 | 32,119 |
| Cuba | 7 | 1:1,646,102 | 8,141 |
| Finland | 7 | 1:785,243 | 38,644 |
| Israel | 7 | 1:1,222,519 | 68,299 |
| Jordan | 7 | 1:1,263,205 | 16,935 |
| Pakistan | 7 | 1:25,520,555 | 84,222 |
| Poland | 7 | 1:5,429,821 | 146,768 |
| Gibraltar | 6 | 1:5,659 | 991 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Cook Islands | 5 | 1:3,636 | 866 |
| Japan | 5 | 1:25,568,859 | 50,629 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 5 | 1:11,040 | 818 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Venezuela | 5 | 1:6,040,815 | 47,898 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| Austria | 4 | 1:2,128,859 | 91,203 |
| Brunei | 4 | 1:104,683 | 2,048 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Greece | 4 | 1:2,769,948 | 101,568 |
| Malta | 4 | 1:107,568 | 1,849 |
| Myanmar | 4 | 1:12,984,496 | 1,309 |
| Slovakia | 4 | 1:1,334,112 | 94,300 |
| Cayman Islands | 3 | 1:21,298 | 1,488 |
| Monaco | 3 | 1:12,355 | 2,088 |
| Oman | 3 | 1:1,229,324 | 8,987 |
| Peru | 3 | 1:10,594,708 | 45,902 |
| South Korea | 3 | 1:17,080,085 | 2,793 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| Bahamas | 2 | 1:195,876 | 1,708 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Macau | 2 | 1:300,815 | 1,009 |
| Ukraine | 2 | 1:22,761,348 | 425,733 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| Andorra | 1 | 1:83,838 | 2,381 |
| Aruba | 1 | 1:103,477 | 2,586 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Bermuda | 1 | 1:65,279 | 3,010 |
| British Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:31,594 | 1,029 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Saint Lucia | 1 | 1:178,781 | 3,800 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 271 | 1:16,346 | 2,035 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2,153 | 1:11,322 | 1,733 |
| Scotland | 537 | 1:6,971 | 989 |
| Wales | 220 | 1:7,129 | 457 |
| Jersey | 12 | 1:4,324 | 761 |
| Guernsey | 2 | 1:16,328 | 1,834 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3,273 | 1:15,343 | 1,968 |
The alternate forms: Lüke (4,606) are calculated separately.
Luke (348,959) may also be a first name.
Luke Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
i) Bapt. 'the son of Luke.' Lucas was the more popular form. Yet the diminutives seem formed from Luke; v. Luckett, Luckin, and Luccock. (2) Local, 'of Luke,' i.e. Liege. For further proof, v. Luck (a).
Lucas de Luk, London, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Lucas de Lukes, London, ibid.
Katerina Luke, Norfolk, ibid.
1669. Nicholas Luke and Martha Tibby: Marriage Alleg. (Canterbury).
Families of this name long had connection with Berwickshire, more particularly with the estates of Srottiswoode and Marchmont. The name is also found early in Glasgow. Adam (p. 138) says the habitat of the Lukes was the shores of Lochfyne, and that they are an offshoot of the Lamonts. Some Maclucases Englished their name as Luke (Buchanan of Auchmar). Henry Louk was curate in Linlithgow, 1530 (Johnsottn), John Luke or Louk rendered to Exchequer the accounts of the bailies of the burgh of Rutherglen, 1564—67 (ER., XIX, p. 277,370). John Louk was made burgess of Glasgow as burgess heir, 1582, and a later John Louke received the same privilege in 1691 (Burgesses). John Lowk is recorded in Eister Dalbeth, 1587 (Protocols, x), Daniel Luck in Little Dalganross was fined for reset of Clan Gregor, 1613 (RPC., XIV, p. 639), William Luck or Luik was member of Scots parliament for Forfar, 1650 (Hanna, II. p. 503), and Alexander Luke was dyer in Milntoun of Cluny, 1763 (Dunkeld). Lowik 1549. (2) Luke is now used as a shortened (English) form of MacGille Mo-Luaig.
1 from the A.-French form (French Luc) of Lucas, q.v.
As Luc therof witnesseth.—Piers Plowman, 13854.
... as seith Seint Luc.—Chaucer, The Persouns Tale, 702.
2 v. Luck2.
“Man from Lucania”, ancient city in Southern Italy.
(English) Descendant of Luke (light).
The Christian name, besides standing per se as a family name, has given rise to several others, as Lukin, Luckins, Luckings, Luckock, Lucock, Locock, Luckett.
William de Leuca, Normandy 1198 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae).
From St. Luc, near Evreux, Normandy. Simon de St. Luc, England c. 1272 (Rotuli Hundredorum).
User-submitted Reference
This notable surname derives from the given name 'Lucas', a Latin form of the Greek 'Loucas' meaning man from Lucania. Lucania was a region of Southern Italy that was perhaps originally named in an Italic dialect with a word meaning bright, shining. The Latin form of the name, Lucas, was a great favourite as a personal name in the Middle Ages, due in part to the popularity of St. Luke the Evangelist. St. Luke was a doctor and a painter, and there is an ancient suggestion that the name means 'a patient person'. Lucas is held to be the learned form of Luke, and is found in France in the same spelling, from where it may be locational from Luick in Flanders, for example Lucas de Luke appears in the Pipe Rolls of London (1274). London Church Records list the marriage of Christopher Lucas to Margaret Medcalfe, on January 27th 1571 at St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate. A Coat of Arms granted to a Lucas family is silver, a fess between six red annulets. The Crest is out of a gold ducal coronet, a red dragon's head and shoulders, wings erect. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Euerard Lucas, which was dated 1153, in the 'Records of the Templars in England in the 12th Century', Hertfordshire, during the reign of King Stephen, known as 'Count of Blois', 1135 - 1154. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to 'develop' often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Luke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Luke Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Luke (Hindi: ल्यूक, Marathi: लुके, Oriya: ଲୁେକ, Russian: Луке) is more frequently found in The United States than any other country or territory. It can also occur as a variant: Lüke. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Luke? popularity and diffusion
Luke is the 7,093rd most frequently used family name at a global level, held by around 1 in 91,073 people. This last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 34 percent of Luke are found; 31 percent are found in North America and 31 percent are found in Anglo-North America. It is also the 2,987th most widely held first name throughout the world, held by 348,959 people.
It is most frequent in The United States, where it is borne by 23,631 people, or 1 in 15,338. In The United States it is most numerous in: California, where 9 percent live, Georgia, where 8 percent live and Florida, where 8 percent live. Other than The United States this last name is found in 144 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 15 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 12 percent live.
Luke Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Luke has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name increased 722 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it increased 217 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it declined 13 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it increased 181 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it declined 81 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Luke Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Luke last name is predominantly Presbyterian (52%) in Ireland, Christian (100%) in Kenya, Maronite (46%) in Lebanon and Christian (98%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those holding the Luke surname are 16.43% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 63.2% registered with the political party.
The amount Luke earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 22.07% less than the national average, earning 269,707 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 0.57% less than the national average, earning R 236,292 per year; in Colombia they earn 62.39% more than the national average, earning $36,867,500 COP per year; in United States they earn 0.15% more than the national average, earning $43,215 USD per year and in Canada they earn 4% more than the national average, earning $51,668 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Luke Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Luke in the Oriya language | ||
| ଲୁେକ | lueka | 95.24 |
| ଲୁକ | luka | 4.76 |
| Luke in the Hindi language | ||
| ल्यूक | lyuka | 76.47 |
| लुके | luke | 11.76 |
| लूक | luka | 8.82 |
| लूके | luke | 2.94 |
| Luke in the Marathi language | ||
| लुके | luke | 51.04 |
| लुक | luka | 36.46 |
| लूके | luke | 7.29 |
| लूक | luka | 5.21 |
| Luke in the Russian language | ||
| Луке | luke | - |
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