Lucas is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, Italy, England. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Lucas
No. of characters: 5
Origin: Ireland, Italy, England
Meaning:

The surname is the variant of Luckett. Descendant of little Luck, an English variant of Luke meaning "light".

Descendant of Lucas or Luke meaning "light".

Lastname is variation of Luckett. A diminutive of Luke.

Form of Lukis. A Guernsey surname. Probably another form of Lucas.

How popular is Lucas?

Lucas is common in Tanzania, United States, France, Mexico, Philippines, England, Brazil, Spain, Guatemala, Ecuador, Australia, Portugal, Canada, South Africa, Germany, Peru, Papua New Guinea, Colombia, Netherlands, Argentina, Nigeria, Belgium, Bolivia, Kenya, New Zealand, Uruguay, Namibia, Venezuela, Wales, Botswana, India, Haiti, Malaysia, Scotland, Saudi Arabia, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Dominican Republic, Thailand, Luxembourg, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Panama, Cameroon, Chile, Trinidad and Tobago, Hong Kong, Seychelles, Chad, United Arab Emirates, Honduras, Morocco, Moldova, Nicaragua, New Caledonia, Angola, Barbados, Switzerland, Belize, Denmark, Algeria, Singapore, Guyana, Zimbabwe, Jamaica, Romania, Cuba, Israel, Paraguay, Japan, Italy, Bahrain, El Salvador, Jersey.

Lucas is ranked 880 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Lucas bearers increased by 7.24 per cent in 2010 US census to 107690 since 2000, the surname slipped by 11 spots and ranked at 286. The last name was found in around 4 per ten thousand population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 69.1 73.57
Black 18.51 18.33
Hispanic or Latino 8.05 4.53
Others 2.19 1.72
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 1.63 1.35
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.52 0.5
Lucas is quite popular family name mostly used in Tanzania while Saint Pierre and Miquelon is ahead in terms of density. Around 596829 people have been found who wears Lucas as their family name. Lucas is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with hundred thousands of Lucas:
43 Tanzania141,216
284 United States127,589
Countries with ten thousands of Lucas:
75 France46,489
413 Mexico42,301
310 Philippines25,078
279 England24,773
560 Brazil22,678
258 Spain21,711
135 Guatemala21,527
153 Ecuador17,291
220 Australia15,120
176 Portugal10,068
Countries with thousands of Lucas:
638 Canada8,147
911 South Africa7,657
1,334 Germany7,589
806 Peru6,418
59 Papua New Guinea4,862
1,353 Colombia3,039
646 Netherlands2,838
1,355 Argentina2,800
4,869 Nigeria2,661
547 Belgium2,388
657 Bolivia2,306
2,494 Kenya2,128
319 New Zealand1,921
225 Uruguay1,883
211 Namibia1,527
1,462 Venezuela1,490
302 Wales1,129
199 Botswana1,081
33,595 India1,047
1,100 Haiti1,011
Countries with hundreds of Lucas:
2,912 Malaysia856
1,086 Scotland760
6,011 Saudi Arabia755
6 French Polynesia749
17,400 Indonesia732
1,107 Dominican Republic678
16,666 Thailand624
104 Luxembourg534
736 Northern Ireland493
1,295 Ireland488
809 Panama477
6,203 Cameroon439
1,972 Chile438
530 Trinidad and Tobago433
418 Hong Kong408
34 Seychelles387
4,109 Chad385
2,930 United Arab Emirates352
916 Honduras348
17,469 Morocco341
1,873 Moldova327
969 Nicaragua307
21 New Caledonia296
2,308 Angola280
244 Barbados278
4,471 Switzerland278
306 Belize267
2,463 Denmark234
21,974 Algeria218
1,040 Singapore205
692 Guyana199
12,162 Zimbabwe185
1,527 Jamaica176
13,028 Romania171
2,489 Cuba168
6,866 Israel163
1,383 Paraguay155
18,748 Japan148
48,240 Italy134
2,102 Bahrain118
1,306 El Salvador118
122 Jersey102
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
284 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines90
9,055 Sweden77
944 Guinea75
125,931 Russia71
2,647 Taiwan71
8 Saint Pierre and Miquelon69
17,785 Austria66
1,258 China60
7,566 Kuwait58
1,403 Mozambique54
261 Guernsey51
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
323 Isle of Man49
36,930 Greece46
346 São Tomé and Príncipe46
398 Grenada45
29,278 Pakistan43
1,845 Costa Rica41
16,333 Norway41
71,240 Poland38
430 Andorra37
100 Curaçao37
505 Micronesia36
8,109 Estonia31
684 Cape Verde29
9,832 Lesotho26
302 Gibraltar25
908 Guam25
2,355 Madagascar25
11,493 Ghana24
1,021 Malta24
19,492 Malawi23
29,593 Hungary22
11,536 Qatar22
515 Bermuda19
6,049 Solomon Islands19
685 Antigua and Barbuda18
789 Aruba18
26,475 Finland14
12,312 Lebanon12
486 Northern Mariana Islands11
89,142 Uganda11
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
48,353 Benin10
80,937 Czechia10
83,699 Kazakhstan10
561 Saint Kitts and Nevis10
12,633 Congo9
179 East Timor9
1,883 Fiji9
23,279 Liberia9
77,603 Belarus8
1,058 Marshall Islands8
134,647 Turkey8
40,820 Croatia7
12,093 Sri Lanka7
2,111 United States Virgin Islands7
1,961 American Samoa6
8,069 Cambodia6
182,887 DR Congo6
62,302 Egypt6
18,975 Slovenia6
1,433 South Korea6
3,090 Vietnam6
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

William Lucas was 32 years old when he migrated to USA during Irish famine on March 13, 1846. He lived in Great Britain where he worked as farmer and took Prince Albert from London. Robert Lucas, aged 22, Frances Lucas, Frances Lucas (3), Born at sea Albert Lucas, Thomas Lucas, aged 35, Immigrant Nancy Lucas, 30 years old Patt. Lucas, 20 years old Charles Lucas, and 72 other Lucas around 42.22% of whom were workman while others worked as carpenter and weaver, spinster migrated to US from London, Liverpool and Limerick.

From Italy

Farmer A Lucas from Italy aboard the Waesland from Antwerp. He is registered to be 28 years old when he arrived in Denver-Col on April 25, 1884.

From Germany

Michel Lucas worked as farmer and hailed from Hessen. 20 years old embarked for New York from Havre on Seine and arrived on May 15, 1850. Wilhelm Lucas (30) Farmer, Mathias Lucas (23) Boot & shoe maker, Henry Lucas (10 months old), Henry Lucas, aged 10 months old, 34 years old Julien Lucas, Julien Lucas, aged 34, Louis Lucas, aged 31, Louis Lucas, aged 31, and 298 other Lucas around 39.22% of whom were farmer while others worked as merchant and daughter, farmer and mechanic, laborer, shoemaker, clerk, tailor, servant, baker, tanner, smith, dressmaker, peasant, traveler migrated to US from Hamburg, Antwerp and Havre.

Lucas Namesakes

  • Dione Lucas, English chef
  • Eliza Lucas, changed agriculture in colonial South Carolina
  • Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, first African-American woman elected to serve
  • E. V. Lucas, English humorist, essayist, playwright, biographer, publisher
  • Hippolyte Lucas, French entomologist
  • Charlotte Lucas, English actress and painter
  • Sam Lucas, in Washington Court House
  • Clarence Lucas, Canadian composer, lyricist, conductor
  • Frederic Augustus Lucas, Sc
  • Betty Lucas, Australian actress and theatre director
  • Prosper Lucas, French medical doctor
  • Joseph Lucas, lamp manufacturer and the founder of Lucas Industries
  • Ronn Lucas, American ventriloquist and stand-up comedian
  • Ralph Palmer, 12th Baron Lucas, is one of the hereditary peers elected to remain
  • Frances Lucas, is currently the President of Frances Lucas Consulting
  • Tommy Lucas, English footballer
  • Geralyn Lucas, American journalist, television producer
  • John Baptiste Charles Lucas, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • St. John Lucas, St
  • Amand Lucas, Belgian scientist and professor at the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix
  • Jocelyn Lucas, British Conservative Party politician
  • Phil Lucas, American filmmaker of mostly Native American themes
  • Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas, English-born schoolmaster, scientist and publisher
  • Thomas Pennington Lucas, Scottish-born Australian medical practitioner
  • Arthur Lucas, originally
  • Antony J. Lucas, influential Greek Australian businessman noted for his philanthropic activities and construction of numerous public and private buildings
  • Marino Lucas, Greek–Australian businessman, originally residing
  • Katie Lucas, adopted middle child of film maker George Lucas
  • Frederick Lucas, British religious polemicist and founder of The Tablet
  • John Meredyth Lucas, American writer, primarily for television
  • Wingate H. Lucas, U.S. Representative from Texas
  • Jackson Jose Lucas, Brazilian football defender
  • Margaret Bright Lucas, British temperance activist and suffragist
  • Albert Pike Lucas, American landscape, figure
  • Loreen Rice Lucas, Canadian author
  • Édouard Lucas, French mathematician
  • Anthony Francis Lucas, American Croatian-born oil explorer
  • Caro Lucas, Iranian Armenian scientist
  • George Lucas, George Walton Lucas Jr
  • Charles Lucas, English soldier
  • John P. Lucas, senior officer of the United States Army
  • Jerry Lucas, American former basketball player and memory education expert
  • Ken Lucas, American politician
  • Caroline Lucas, British politician,
  • Ian Lucas, British Labour Party politician,
  • Marvin W. Lucas, Marvin Willis Lucas, Jr
  • Wilfred Lucas, Canadian-born American stage actor
  • Matt Lucas, English comedian, screenwriter, actor and singer
  • Scott W. Lucas, American attorney and politician
  • Colin Lucas, historian and university administrator
  • F. L. Lucas, English classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist
  • Josh Lucas, American actor

Lucas Namesakes

  • Dione Lucas, English chef
  • Eliza Lucas, changed agriculture in colonial South Carolina
  • Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, first African-American woman elected to serve
  • E. V. Lucas, English humorist, essayist, playwright, biographer, publisher
  • Hippolyte Lucas, French entomologist
  • Charlotte Lucas, English actress and painter
  • Sam Lucas, in Washington Court House
  • Clarence Lucas, Canadian composer, lyricist, conductor
  • Frederic Augustus Lucas, Sc
  • Betty Lucas, Australian actress and theatre director
  • Prosper Lucas, French medical doctor
  • Joseph Lucas, lamp manufacturer and the founder of Lucas Industries
  • Ronn Lucas, American ventriloquist and stand-up comedian
  • Ralph Palmer, 12th Baron Lucas, is one of the hereditary peers elected to remain
  • Frances Lucas, is currently the President of Frances Lucas Consulting
  • Tommy Lucas, English footballer
  • Geralyn Lucas, American journalist, television producer
  • John Baptiste Charles Lucas, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • St. John Lucas, St
  • Amand Lucas, Belgian scientist and professor at the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix
  • Jocelyn Lucas, British Conservative Party politician
  • Phil Lucas, American filmmaker of mostly Native American themes
  • Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas, English-born schoolmaster, scientist and publisher
  • Thomas Pennington Lucas, Scottish-born Australian medical practitioner
  • Arthur Lucas, originally
  • Antony J. Lucas, influential Greek Australian businessman noted for his philanthropic activities and construction of numerous public and private buildings
  • Marino Lucas, Greek–Australian businessman, originally residing
  • Katie Lucas, adopted middle child of film maker George Lucas
  • Frederick Lucas, British religious polemicist and founder of The Tablet
  • John Meredyth Lucas, American writer, primarily for television
  • Wingate H. Lucas, U.S. Representative from Texas
  • Jackson Jose Lucas, Brazilian football defender
  • Margaret Bright Lucas, British temperance activist and suffragist
  • Albert Pike Lucas, American landscape, figure
  • Loreen Rice Lucas, Canadian author
  • Édouard Lucas, French mathematician
  • Anthony Francis Lucas, American Croatian-born oil explorer
  • Caro Lucas, Iranian Armenian scientist
  • George Lucas, George Walton Lucas Jr
  • Charles Lucas, English soldier
  • John P. Lucas, senior officer of the United States Army
  • Jerry Lucas, American former basketball player and memory education expert
  • Ken Lucas, American politician
  • Caroline Lucas, British politician,
  • Ian Lucas, British Labour Party politician,
  • Marvin W. Lucas, Marvin Willis Lucas, Jr
  • Wilfred Lucas, Canadian-born American stage actor
  • Matt Lucas, English comedian, screenwriter, actor and singer
  • Scott W. Lucas, American attorney and politician
  • Colin Lucas, historian and university administrator
  • F. L. Lucas, English classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist
  • Josh Lucas, American actor

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