Lúk
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lúk is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lǫkъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás, from Proto-Indo-European *lenk- (“to bend”). Cognate with Lithuanian lankas.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 537(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 32K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 45K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 268 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 537 (inferred from the name graph)
≈60,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Luk in US United States, HK Hong Kong, CA Canada and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*lǫkъ(measured from records)
- Proto-Balto-Slavic*lankás(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*lenk-“to bend”(measured from records)
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lǫkъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás, from Proto-Indo-European *lenk- (“to bend”). Cognate with Lithuanian lankas.
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lúk counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lúk is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tut-pro, to break through
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In tut-pro, прорывать, проходить через
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lúk mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lǫkъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás, from Proto-Indo-European *lenk- (“to bend”). Cognate with Lithuanian lankas. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc and 1 other source.
- Is Lúk a male or female name?
- Lúk is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lúk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Lúk in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luk.
- How common is the name Lúk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,920 people named Lúk in 2010, about 1 in 173 thousand residents.
- How common is Lúk compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Lúk is the 129th most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lúk” — the 129th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.