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
Luku (Hindi: लुकु, Marathi: लुकु, Oriya: ଲୁକୁ, Russian: Луку, Tibetan: ལུ་ཀུ།) occurs more in Indonesia more than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Lükü. Click here to see other possible spellings of Luku.
How Common Is The Last Name Luku? popularity and diffusion
The last name Luku is the 113,188th most commonly held surname at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 1,782,668 people. This surname occurs predominantly 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 held first name internationally, held by 3,678 people.
The last name Luku is most frequent in Indonesia, where it is borne by 1,234 people, or 1 in 107,171. In Indonesia it is primarily found in: Papua, where 66 percent are found, East Nusa Tenggara, where 17 percent are found and South Sulawesi, where 10 percent are found. Without taking into account Indonesia it is found in 30 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 24 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 15 percent are found.
Luku Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the last name is principally 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
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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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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