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The LUCK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,940 5394 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 1,841 3214 0.004 37
Change since 1880 +4099 -2180 -0.002 -15
Other Countries
Australia 1,137 1447 0.007 70
United Kingdom 2,499 2447 0.005 54
Top States for LUCK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 755 1259 0.011 107
North Carolina 450 2526 0.006 56
California 388 7277 0.001 11
Florida 350 5826 0.002 22
Texas 301 6624 0.001 14
Top States for LUCK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 755 1259 0.011 107
North Carolina 450 2526 0.006 56
Utah 112 2655 0.005 50
Alaska 27 3459 0.004 43
Wisconsin 224 3482 0.004 42

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LUCK live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LUCK represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LUCK in Virginia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LUCK by picking someone at random in Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LUCK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LUCK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the LUCK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LUCK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 589 9.92
Asian/Pacific 117 1.97
White (Hispanic) 88 1.48
Mixed Race 85 1.43
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.27
White (Caucasian) 5,045 84.93

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LUCK surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LUCK in historical publications

LUCK. LUCRE. A native either of Lucca, in Italy, or of Liege, in the Netherlands. Speaking of the latter town, Andrew Borde, in his Boke of Knowledge, says : " The lond of Lewke is a pleasauutcountre; the cheefe towne is the cytie of Lewke. The speche is base Doch." Or it may be from one of the parishes of Luc-sur-mer, or Luc-le-chateau, in Normandy,

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to LUCK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LUCK.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

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Potential typos for LUCK

The following words are slight variants of LUCK that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.