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Interpretation varies: Lucania-related or Lucius/light-linked accounts.
The reviewed Luc article explains the French Lucas-family name through a person from Lucania. The deeper Greek Loukas entry records formation from Lucius, Lucanus, or both. The Latin Lucius entry supplies the separate light-word link. These accounts are kept distinct; the nickname use for Lucien is a further documented use, not proof of one universal meaning.
French form of the Luke/Lucas family; separate nickname use for Lucien.
The exact French entry identifies the English equivalent Luke, whose documented transmission passes through Latin Lucas and Greek Loukas. The personal nickname use for Lucien remains available as a separate relationship and does not collapse the older naming families.
Not yet published for this spelling.
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 |
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| Canada | 2025 | Boys | 13 · preliminary | 1642 | 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 Unpublished values are unknown, not zero.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 | 1958 | Girls | 5 (rounded to 5) | 1892 | 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 | 45 (rounded to 5) | 913 | 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| England & Wales | 2025 | Boys | 3 | 5137 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Northern Ireland | 2011 | Boys | 4 | 311 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Scotland | 2016 | Boys | 3 | 707 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Ireland | 2016 | Boys | 4 | 601 | 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 | 2025 | Boys | 33 | 3450 | 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 French section explicitly documents male personal-name use. Language use is separate from the older Greek and Latin formation history. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Luc&oldid=93542671. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Rights and license links: CC BY-SA 4.0 for Wiktionary-derived material (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names compared the brief factual root or relationship accounts and retained their scope. No source passage, image or recording reproduced.
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The exact Norman section explicitly documents male personal-name use. Language use is separate from the older Greek and Latin formation history. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Luc&oldid=93542671. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Rights and license links: CC BY-SA 4.0 for Wiktionary-derived material (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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.
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The exact Welsh section explicitly documents male personal-name use. Language use is separate from the older Greek and Latin formation history. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Luc&oldid=93542671. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Rights and license links: CC BY-SA 4.0 for Wiktionary-derived material (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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.
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The reviewed Luc article explains the French Lucas-family name through a person from Lucania. The deeper Greek Loukas entry records formation from Lucius, Lucanus, or both. The Latin Lucius entry supplies the separate light-word link. These accounts are kept distinct; the nickname use for Lucien is a further documented use, not proof of one universal meaning. Credit: Wiktionary contributors; Babyverden exact name article, crediting name researcher Ivar Utne; Real Academia Galega, Guia de nomes galegos, coordinated by A. I. Boullon Agrelo. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Luc&oldid=93542671; https://www.babyverden.no/navn/luc/; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%CE%9B%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BA%E1%BE%B6%CF%82&oldid=92288268; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Lucius&oldid=93553725; 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/); Babyverden source rights retained (https://www.babyverden.no/); 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.
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Directly documented French given-name reading. It is not presented as an English guide; personal and regional preferences can differ.
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The exact Welsh personal-name entry records this reading. It is separate from French /lyk/ and is not counted as an English guide. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Luc&oldid=93542671. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Rights and license links: CC BY-SA 4.0 for Wiktionary-derived material (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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.
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The reviewed French-name article explicitly describes Luc as a short form of Lucas. This historical short-form account is separate from the documented use of Luc as a nickname for Lucien. Credit: Wiktionary contributors; Babyverden exact name article, crediting name researcher Ivar Utne. Sources: https://www.babyverden.no/navn/luc/; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Luc&oldid=93542671; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Lucas&oldid=93542385. 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/); Babyverden source rights retained (https://www.babyverden.no/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names compared the brief factual root or relationship accounts and retained their scope. No source passage, image or recording reproduced.
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The author describes his own observing acquaintance with Lucien Kemble and explicitly identifies Luc as the name used by friends. This documents one short-form use; Luc also exists independently as a French given name. Credit: Richard D. Vanderberg, A Saskatchewan Name in the Skies, reprinted from Saskatoon Skies in RASC Bulletin, August 1991, page 8. Sources: https://rasc.ca/sites/default/files/publications/Bulletin-1991-08-vector.pdf. License: Original factual summary; source rights retained. Rights and license links: Author and Royal Astronomical Society of Canada source rights retained (https://rasc.ca/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized only the documented relationship or language-specific account. No biography, literary passage, photograph or audio reproduced; distinct traditions and statistics remain separate.
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The exact French entry identifies the English equivalent Luke, whose documented transmission passes through Latin Lucas and Greek Loukas. The personal nickname use for Lucien remains available as a separate relationship and does not collapse the older naming families. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Luc&oldid=93542671; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Luke&oldid=93542499; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Lucas&oldid=93542385; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%CE%9B%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BA%E1%BE%B6%CF%82&oldid=92288268. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Rights and license links: CC BY-SA 4.0 for Wiktionary-derived material (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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.
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The exact French entry identifies Luke as its English equivalent, and the reviewed French-name account relates Luc to Lucas. These naming relationships do not make Luc, Lucius and Lucien interchangeable or merge their statistics. Credit: Wiktionary contributors; Babyverden exact name article, crediting name researcher Ivar Utne. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Luc&oldid=93542671; https://www.babyverden.no/navn/luc/; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Luke&oldid=93542499; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Lucas&oldid=93542385. 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/); Babyverden source rights retained (https://www.babyverden.no/). 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.
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The exact French entry identifies Luke as its English equivalent, and the reviewed French-name account relates Luc to Lucas. These naming relationships do not make Luc, Lucius and Lucien interchangeable or merge their statistics. Credit: Wiktionary contributors; Babyverden exact name article, crediting name researcher Ivar Utne. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Luc&oldid=93542671; https://www.babyverden.no/navn/luc/; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Luke&oldid=93542499; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Lucas&oldid=93542385. 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/); Babyverden source rights retained (https://www.babyverden.no/). 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.
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Attribution: Source: NISRA : Website: www.nisra.gov.uk
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Attribution: (C) Crown copyright. Data supplied by National Records of Scotland.
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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.
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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.
