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Lucas: U.S. name history
Published Social Security birth-name counts for the exact spelling Lucas in the male recorded field, 1880–2025.
In the latest file, Lucas was at position 10 among published male-field spellings, with 10,219 recorded births. That is down 524 from 10,743 in 2024. Its first released row in this archive is from 1881; a missing earlier row does not establish when the name began to exist.
What the historical pattern shows
Lucas appears in the published male-field archive from 1881. It was outside the first 1,000 in 1925, reached position 112 in 1990, and entered the top 100 by 2000.
Its annual count was highest in 2017. The spelling was eighth in 2020 and tenth in 2025, showing a modest change in rank after its earlier rise. The data record a spelling, not its pronunciation or the culture of the people using it.
Selected annual records
| Birth year | Published count | Position* |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 36 | 1,195 |
| 1950 | 24 | 1,520 |
| 1975 | 890 | 231 |
| 1990 | 3,088 | 112 |
| 2000 | 4,818 | 83 |
| 2010 | 10,388 | 35 |
| 2015 | 12,331 | 16 |
| 2017 | 13,032 | 11 |
| 2020 | 11,386 | 8 |
| 2024 | 10,743 | 9 |
| 2025 | 10,219 | 10 |
*Position is calculated from the published entries in one year and field, ordered by count; it is not an official SSA rank. Counts are not adjusted for population or coverage. SSA suppresses small cells, so no row does not mean zero births.
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Sources: SSA national data and suppression rules · our data method. Data reviewed 1 November 2026.