girls:
549 births since 1970
#5167 (10th percentile)
boys:
308.9k births since 1880
#113 (98th percentile)
overall:
309.5k births since 1880
#247 (97th percentile)
The name Luke is the #247 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 309,474 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #113 (97.6% percentile) for all time with 308,925 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,167 (9.6% percentile) for all time with 549 births since 1970.
Luke has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1970 for girls).
The name Luke has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Luke reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 97.1% percentile (ranked #28) with 4,935 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 5,134 births per million (ranked 97.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Luke ranks #30 for boys (96.8% percentile) with 3,941 births per million, which is 76.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Luke reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #906) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Luke".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Luke. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Luke is pronounced as luek, which has 1 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like L UW1 K) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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