Lucas

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Lucas is ranked 9th among boys in 2024 (10,703 births). Its best rank was 8th, in 2018–2022.

Rank in 2024: #9same as 2023
Births in 2024: 10,7030.62% of boys
Peak year: 201713,029 births
Best rank: #8first in 2018
Since 1881: 320,790people given the name

Babies named Lucas, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

320,790 boys have been named Lucas in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 13,029 births — 0.70% of all boys recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 19 → 9).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 37%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 34 of them in the top 100 and 7 in the top 10.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Lucas
1880s	41
1890s	67
1900s	55
1910s	286
1920s	403
1930s	254
1940s	256
1950s	339
1960s	858
1970s	8,824
1980s	26,087
1990s	38,178
2000s	70,993
2010s	118,639
2020s	55,510

In 2017, its biggest year

Lucas was the 11th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.

Names that rose and fell with Lucas

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Lukas42,878 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.