Name: Luke
Gender: Male
Usage: Luke, of latin origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Luke are in general originating from Australia, France, Greece, Indonesia, Ireland, Malta, Netherlands, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Luke across the world, see Loukas.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Luke is: Light, A native of Lucania.
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Numerology of the first name Luke: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 4. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: traditional, organized, self-disciplined, steady, logical, practical, helpful, reliable.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Practical, Dependable
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
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The name Luke is ranked on the 231st position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 2559900 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.036% of the population. The name Luke has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Luke for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Luke is 18 October.
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History and Origin
Luke /ˈluːk/ is a male given name, and less commonly, a surname.
The name Luke is derived from the Latin name Lucas or from the Greek Loukas, meaning "man from Lucania" (a region of Italy). Although the name is attested in ancient inscriptions, the best known historical use of the name is in the New Testament. The Gospel of Luke was written around 70 to 90 AD (the exact years are unknown), and was from here that the name was first popularized. Luke, who is credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Luke, was a physician who lived around 30 to 130 AD. Luke is also credited with the Book of Acts in the Bible, and also is mentioned by the Apostle Paul in some of Paul's letters to first-century churches.
Luke is the 21st most popular name for new babies in England and Wales, the 43rd most popular name for new babies in the United States, and the 2,105th most common surname in the US, with 15,000 people (0.006%) sharing the surname.
English: Middle English form of Lucas, Latin form of the post-classical Greek name Loukas ‘man from Lucania’. This owes its perennial popularity throughout Christian Europe to the fact that, from the 2nd century onwards, the third gospel in the New Testament has been ascribed to the Lucas or Luke mentioned at various places in Acts and in the Epistles. He was a doctor, a Gentile, and a friend and convert of St Paul.
Cognates: Scottish Gaelic: Lùcas. Irish Gaelic: Lúcás. French: Luc. Italian: Luca. Catalan: Lluc(h). German: Lukas. Dutch: Lucas. Polish: Łukasz. Czech: Lukáš. Hungarian: Lukács. Russian: Luka.
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