Lucah
Masculine · “from Lucania”
Lucah is a recent respelling of Luca, the Italian form of Luke — a name that has been traveling around Europe since the first century and has a genuinely disputed meaning.
How old is the name Lucah?
Lucah first appears in US birth records in 2004 — 21 years ago. The typical Lucah is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Lucah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lucah most popular?
Lucah peaked in 2020, reaching #1895 nationally. Today it ranks #3240, 1,345 places below that high. See the whole 2020 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Loukas to Lucah
The story of Lucah
Loukas wrote one of the gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, and his name spread with them. Latin made Lucas, Italian made Luca, English made Luke, and every one of them has stayed in use for two thousand years. Luca became widely fashionable in English-speaking countries in the last two decades, and Lucah is one of the respellings that followed — an h added to make the a look deliberate rather than Italian.
Meaningscholars disagree
from Lucania, or of the light
Latin Lucas is generally read as a man from Lucania, a region of southern Italy. A second and very old reading connects it instead to lux, light, which is attractive and less securely founded. Both have been offered since antiquity.
How the name formed
- Loukas
- Lucas
- Luca
- Lucah
Related forms: Luca · Luke · Lucas · Lukács
Pronouncing Lucah
LOO-kah
Two syllables, first stressed. The h is silent and changes nothing you can hear.
Nicknames for Lucah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2004
- Most boys named
- 202078 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1895reached in 2020
- Change vs 2024
- −12.2%36 in 2025, from 41
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lucah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Luca in Italian — spelling variant
- Luke in English — same name
- Lucas in Spanish — same name
- Lukács in Hungarian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Lucahs among us
people named Lucah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 47,447 born in 2025 was named Lucah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Lucah
- #3240
- Lucah on the 2025 chart
- #4
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Lucah went to 36 boys in 2025, but Luca, Luka and Lucca are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 13,502, which makes it the 4th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,236 places above the chart.
and 2 rarer spellings.
About 1 boy in 127 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 47,447 for Lucah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Buckley test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lucah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Buckley climbed just as high around 1962, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Buckley's path sketches the road Lucah is walking now.
Lucah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Lucah is headed
Lucah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Lucah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lucah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented two-thousand-year record behind the sound, in every European language.
- Luke and Lucas both stand beside it as immediately familiar cousins.
- Two open syllables that are easy in almost any language.
- Luca and Luka are both standard and far more written; this spelling will be corrected constantly.
- The silent h has no basis in any of the languages the name comes from.
- Luca is used for girls in some countries, which occasionally confuses.
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Masculine · #3240 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Lucahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Lucah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Lucah?
- Lucah is one of 4 recorded spellings. Luca is the more common one — 8,759 births in 2025 against 36 for Lucah.
- How popular is the name Lucah in 2025?
- Lucah ranks #3240 among US boy names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lucah?
- About 1 in every 47,447 US boys born in 2025 was named Lucah — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lucah with classmates?
- Lucah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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