Luku Surname
Approximately 4,088 people bear this surname
Luku Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 1,234 | 1:107,171 | 10,963 |
| Nigeria | 998 | 1:177,498 | 10,935 |
| DR Congo | 609 | 1:121,313 | 13,192 |
| Albania | 496 | 1:5,875 | 1,114 |
| Tanzania | 190 | 1:278,640 | 21,876 |
| Papua New Guinea | 185 | 1:44,074 | 5,397 |
| Cameroon | 149 | 1:139,390 | 15,562 |
| Malaysia | 53 | 1:556,495 | 27,316 |
| Uganda | 43 | 1:907,890 | 40,955 |
| Turkey | 27 | 1:2,882,275 | 84,327 |
| India | 27 | 1:28,409,829 | 361,298 |
| Kenya | 24 | 1:1,924,162 | 36,129 |
| United States | 11 | 1:32,950,812 | 797,015 |
| Italy | 9 | 1:6,795,188 | 113,457 |
| Ethiopia | 9 | 1:10,838,474 | 14,518 |
| Russia | 5 | 1:28,824,611 | 530,332 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| Solomon Islands | 2 | 1:290,014 | 19,875 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
The alternate forms: Lükü (2) are calculated separately.
Luku (3,678) may also be a first name.
Luku Demographics
Luku Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Luku Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Luku Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Luku (Hindi: लुकु, Marathi: लुकु, Oriya: ଲୁକୁ, Russian: Луку, Tibetan: ལུ་ཀུ།) is borne by more people in Indonesia than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms: Lükü. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Luku? popularity and diffusion
The last name Luku is the 113,188th most frequently held family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 1,782,668 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 50 percent of Luku reside; 24 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 24 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 116,347th most commonly occurring first name in the world It is held by 3,678 people.
The surname is most widely held in Indonesia, where it is carried by 1,234 people, or 1 in 107,171. In Indonesia Luku is mostly concentrated in: Papua, where 66 percent reside, East Nusa Tenggara, where 17 percent reside and South Sulawesi, where 10 percent reside. Without taking into account Indonesia this last name exists in 30 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 24 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 15 percent reside.
Luku Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the Luku surname is primarily Christian (100%) in Kenya and Christian (70%) in Nigeria.
Phonetically Similar Names
Luku Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Luku in the Oriya language | ||
| ଲୁକୁ | luku | 97.17 |
| ଳୁକୁ | luku | 0.94 |
| ଲୂକୁ | luku | 0.47 |
| ସୁକୁ | suku | 0.24 |
| ଲୁକ | luka | 0.24 |
| Luku in the Marathi language | ||
| लुकु | luku | 66.67 |
| लुकू | luku | 25 |
| लूकू | luku | 8.33 |
| Luku in the Tibetan language | ||
| ལུ་ཀུ། | luku | 50 |
| ལུ་སྐུ། | luku | 23.53 |
| ལུ་ཀུ་ | luku | 5.88 |
| ལུགས་ཀུ། | lukku | 5.88 |
| ལུག་སྐུ། | lukku | 2.94 |
| ཀླུ་ཀུ། | luku | 2.94 |
| ལུག་ཀུ། | lukku | 2.94 |
| ཀླུ་ཀུ་ | luku | 2.94 |
| སླུགས་སྐུ་ | lukku | 2.94 |
| Luku in the Hindi language | ||
| लुकु | luku | 33.33 |
| लूकू | luku | 33.33 |
| लुक्ू | luku | 16.67 |
| लुकू | luku | 16.67 |
| Luku in the Russian language | ||
| Луку | luku | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
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- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Luku
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