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How popular is the name Lucas?

Births per year, rank history and how many Lucases are alive today.

Lucas (male) is currently the 32nd most popular boys' name in England and Wales, with 1,381 babies given the name in 2025. This spelling of the name peaked in 2009, when 3,276 babies were given the name, the 17th most popular that year. It has declined since 2009; the 2025 figure is roughly 42% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 50,000 babies have been named Lucas in England and Wales since 1996. Lucas is one spelling of a name also recorded as Lukas; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Lucas you are most likely to meet is around 16 years old. Half of all Lucases born in England and Wales are between 8 and 18, and there are at least 56,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 17% chance that at least one of them will be called Lucas.

How many babies are named Lucas each year?

Includes all spellings: Lucas, Lukas. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Lucas spelling rank?

Where does the Lukas spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.