The LUKE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	17,016	1940	0.006	63
United States (1880 census)	3,272	1875	0.007	65
Change since 1880	+13744	-65	-0.001	-2
Other Countries
Australia	1,457	1126	0.009	89
United Kingdom	3,654	1710	0.008	80

Top States for LUKE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,471	2194	0.004	43
Georgia	1,451	744	0.018	177
Florida	1,334	1567	0.008	83
New York	1,001	1868	0.005	53
Texas	922	2555	0.004	44
Top States for LUKE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	151	484	0.020	200
Hawaii	241	361	0.020	199
Mississippi	554	828	0.019	195
Utah	407	740	0.018	182
Louisiana	811	816	0.018	181

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of LUKE

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 LUKE 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 LUKE 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 LUKE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	917	5.39
Mixed Race	362	2.13
White (Hispanic)	340	2
Native American/Alaskan	180	1.06
White (Caucasian)	12,810	75.28
Black/African American	2,406	14.14

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

Similar names to LUKE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LUKE.

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.