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A man from Lucania (Latin name account)
The exact English personal-name entry identifies a Latin Lucas borrowing and gives this geographic interpretation. This is a name-history gloss, not a claim that a present-day bearer was born in Lucania. The inspected source does not support the licensed bringer-of-light explanation.
Latin Lucas-derived name, used in English
The exact English entry documents a male personal name borrowed from Latin Lucas and an English variant relationship with Lucas. The Lucas entry traces its form through Ancient Greek. English describes documented use, while Latin and Greek describe the cited transmission history; neither assigns a bearer’s ethnicity.
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Counts apply only to the exact spelling, place, year and recorded usage shown. Places are separate; these figures are never added into a worldwide total. Missing or suppressed records never mean zero.
| Place | Year | Recorded usage | Published births | Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2025 | Boys | 141 · preliminary | 239 | 2025 figures are preliminary. Quebec counts below five are randomly imputed by the publisher before national aggregation. Accents are removed in the source; this profile was matched only where the catalog spelling was unambiguous. Unpublished values are unknown, not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| France | 2006 | Girls | 5 (rounded to 5) | 4651 | Counts are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Ranks use unrounded publisher counts with randomly ordered ties; equally rounded counts can have different ranks. National coverage excludes Mayotte before 2012. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Automated direction labels are withheld for this rounded-count series. Rank basis: source published. |
| France | 2025 | Boys | 50 (rounded to 5) | 782 | Counts are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Ranks use unrounded publisher counts with randomly ordered ties; equally rounded counts can have different ranks. National coverage excludes Mayotte before 2012. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Automated direction labels are withheld for this rounded-count series. Rank basis: source published. |
| England & Wales | 2025 | Boys | 138 | 321 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Northern Ireland | 2024 | Boys | 7 | 256 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Scotland | 2025 | Boys | 9 | 367 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Ireland | 2025 | Boys | 16 | 272 | Names below three occurrences are unpublished. Accent recording changed in 2018; comparisons across that boundary may not describe the same spelling coverage. Counts refer to registrations in the year. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| United States | 2009 | Girls | 5 | 17294 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts. |
| United States | 2025 | Boys | 1,161 | 288 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts. |
Canada, Ireland and France coverage includes confidently matched existing profiles only; unmatched spellings are awaiting review. French counts are rounded to five.
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The exact English personal-name entry identifies a Latin Lucas borrowing and gives this geographic interpretation. This is a name-history gloss, not a claim that a present-day bearer was born in Lucania. The inspected source does not support the licensed bringer-of-light explanation. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted and condensed by Rare Baby Names under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). No source audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The exact English entry documents a male personal name borrowed from Latin Lucas and an English variant relationship with Lucas. The Lucas entry traces its form through Ancient Greek. English describes documented use, while Latin and Greek describe the cited transmission history; neither assigns a bearer’s ethnicity. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted and condensed by Rare Baby Names under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). No source audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The English Lukas entry explicitly supplies the Latin Lucas and Lucania account. The deeper Greek Loukas entry also records a possible Lucius-related formation, or influence from both names. The existing Lucania gloss therefore describes one documented route rather than a universal interpretation. Credit: Wiktionary contributors; Real Academia Galega, Guia de nomes galegos, coordinated by A. I. Boullon Agrelo. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Lukas&oldid=93542211; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%CE%9B%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BA%E1%BE%B6%CF%82&oldid=92288268; https://academia.gal/nomes/-/nome/Lucas. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wiktionary-derived material); other source rights retained. Rights and license links: CC BY-SA 4.0 for Wiktionary-derived material (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); Real Academia Galega source rights retained (https://academia.gal/nomes). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names compared the brief factual root or relationship accounts and retained their scope. No source passage, image or recording reproduced.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wiktionary-derived material); other source rights retained
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English given-name relationship. These spellings remain separate in popularity statistics.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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Attribution: Source: NISRA : Website: www.nisra.gov.uk
License: Open Government Licence v3.0
Attribution: (C) Crown copyright. Data supplied by National Records of Scotland.
License: Open Government Licence v3.0
Attribution: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence
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Attribution: U.S. Social Security Administration
Credit: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0147-01, 1991–2025, released 23 September 2026.
License: Statistics Canada Open Licence
Adaptation: Adapted from Statistics Canada, First names at birth by sex at birth, selected indicators, Table 17-10-0147-01, reference years 1991–2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Credit: Central Statistics Office, Ireland, VSA50 and VSA60, updated 27 February 2026.
License: CC BY 4.0
Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: joined the published count and rank indicators and matched unambiguous existing spellings. Source values retained.
Credit: Source : Insee, Fichier des prénoms, updated 16 July 2026.
License: Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab)
Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: column names and sex codes mapped and unique case-only spellings matched to existing profiles. Published rounded counts and ranks retained.
