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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

'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.

Meaning of LUKE in historical publications

LUKE. The Christian name, besides standing jcr se as a family name, has given rise to several others, as Lukin, Luckins, Luckings, Luckock, Lucock, Locock, Luckett.

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 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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LUKE

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