Luke (given name)
Pronunciation | /luːk/ |
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Gender | Masculine |
Origin | |
Word/name | Greek |
Meaning | "Light" |
Other names | |
Related names | Luc, Luca, Lucas, Lukas |
Luke (/[invalid input: 'icon']ˈluːk/) is a male given name, and less commonly, a surname.
Known to sell gas to vacant properties. Some commentaries suggest that the name is derived from the Latin name [Lucas] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), meaning 'man from Lucania, (a region of Italy). However, the earliest known recording of the name is from the Bible which was in existence before the Latin language was prominent. The Gospel of Luke, which was written around AD 70 to 90, and it is from here that the name was first popularised. Luke, who wrote the Gospel of Luke, was a physician who lived around AD 30 to 130 (exact years are not known), and he also wrote the Book of Acts in the Bible. Luke is also mentioned by the Apostle Paul in some of the letters Paul wrote to first-century churches.
Luke is the 21st most popular name for new babies in England and Wales,[1] the 43rd most popular name for new babies in the United States,[2] and the 2,105th most common surname in the US, with 15,000 people (0.006%) sharing the surname.[3]
2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 1998 |
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43rd | 41st | 41st | 46th | 46th | 50th | 59th | 67th | 75th | 78th | 75th | 82nd | 91st | 87th | 93rd | 113th | 118th | 121st | 119th | 111th |
Variants in other languages
- Afrikaans: Lukas
- Arabic: لوقا (Lūqā)
- Albanian: Luka
- Armenian: Ղուկաս (Ghukas)
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- Breton: Lukaz
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- Catalan: Lluc, Lluch
- Chinese: 卢克 (Lúkè)
- Czech: Lukáš
- Danish: Lukas
- Dutch: Lucas
- Esperanto: Luko
- Finnish: Luukas
- French: Luc, Lucas
- German: Lukas
- Greek:
- Ancient: Λουκᾶς (Loukas)
- Modern: Λουκάς
- Hakka: Lu-kâ
- Hebrew: לוקה
- Croatian: Luka
- Hungarian: Lukács
- Icelandic: Lúkas
- Irish: Lúcás
- Italian: Luca
- Georgian: [ლუკა (Luka)] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)
- Latin: Lucas
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- Maltese: Luqa
- Norwegian: Lukas
- Persian: لوکا
- Piedmontese: Luch
- Polish: Łukasz, Łukaszek
- Portuguese: Lucas
- Romanian: Luca
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- Scottish Gaelic: Lùcas
- Slovak: Lukáš
- Slovene: Luka
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- Spanish: Lucas
- Swedish: Lukas
- Thai: ลูคา
- Turkish: Luka
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- Venetian: Łuca
- Welsh: Lŵc
People known as Luke
- Luke the Evangelist, companion of Paul of Tarsus
- Vietnamese Martyrs, Luke Loan Ba Vu and Luke Thin Viet Pham
- Luke Brookshier (born 1971), American television writer and storyboard artist
- Luke Ford (born 1981), Australian actor
- Luke Gardiner, Irish landowner and politician
- Luke Goss (born 1968), singer and actor
- Luke Kelly (1940–1984), folk singer
- Luke Howard (1772–1864), manufacturing chemist and amateur meteorologist
- Luke Johnson, drummer for Lostprophets
- Luke Perry, American actor
- Luke Ravenstahl (born 1980), mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Luke Short, (1854–1893) cowboy and gunfighter
- Luke Skywalker, protagonist of the original Star Wars trilogy
- Luke Tan, singer and songwriter
- Luke Temple, American pop-folk singer-songwriter
- Luke Watson, rugby player
- Luke Wilson (born 1971), actor
- Luke Wright (born 1985), English cricketer
- Luke Young (born 1979), English footballer
- Luther Campbell (born 1960), also known as Luke
- Steve Lukather (born 1957), also known as Luke
- Lucky Luke, a comic book character who is a cowboy
- Cool Hand Luke, a character played by Paul Newman
- Luke Campbell Donald MBE (born 1977), English professional golfer
References
- ^ a b Top 100 names for baby boys in England and Wales
- ^ a b Popular Baby Names (U.S. Social Security Administration)
- ^ "Name statistics: Luke". namestatistics.com. Retrieved 31 October 2007. [dead link]