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 [ 2 syll. lu-ca, luc-a ] The boy name Luca is sometimes used as a girl name. Its pronunciation is LUWKah KEY. Luca is used predominantly in the Italian language and it is derived from Old Greek origins. Luca is a variant of the name Luke (English). See also the related form, Gianluca (Italian). Luca is a fairly popular baby name for boys, and it is also considered trendy. The name's popularity has been increasing since the 1990s; before that, it was of infrequent use only. At the modest height of its usage in 2008, 0.051% of baby boys were given the name Luca. It ranked at #304 then. In 2008, within the group of boy names directly linked to Luca, Luke (English) was the most widely used. It was used 9 times more than Luca in that year. In the past century Luca has mostly been a boy name. Baby names that sound like Luca include Luka (Russian), Lajos (Hungarian), Lassi (Finnish), Leka (Albanian), Leksik (Czech), Lekso (Czech), Leos (Czech and Polish), Leszek (Polish), Lewis (English), Lico (Spanish), Liko, Lluis (Catalan), Loic (French), Lois (German), Loïc (French), Louis (English and French), Loukas (Greek), Lucas (Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish), Luchok (Russian), and Lucius (English, German, and French). KEY: English pronunciation for Luca: L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; UW as in "two (T.UW)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"   |
