Lucas
Meaning of Lucas
Lucas springs from the ancient Latin and Greek shores, tied to “lux,” the word for light, and to Loukas, “man from Lucania,” so it carries both a glow and a passport. He’s the gentle physician Saint Luke, the swashbuckling Jedi Luke, and the fútbol-cheering “¡Luuu-cas!” you’ll hear in a Spanish plaza, all rolled into one friendly package. Parents love that mix of history and pop-culture sparkle, which is why Lucas has raced up the U.S. charts, beaming in the Top 10 for most of the past decade. The sound is crisp, the spelling is global, and the built-in nicknames—Luke, Lou, even Luca—let a child stretch as he grows. In short, Lucas feels like sunrise: warm, bright, and ready for adventure.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as LOO-kus (/ˈluːkəs/)
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Notable People Named Lucas
| Lucas Moura is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Sao Paulo and the Brazil national team. |
| Lucas Paquetá - Lucas Paqueta is a Brazilian footballer who plays attacking midfield or wing for West Ham United and Brazil. |
| Lucas Radebe - Lucas Valeriu Ntuba Radebe is a retired South African footballer best known as a centre back. |
| Lucas Sebastian Torreira Di Pascua is a Uruguayan defensive midfielder for Super Lig club Galatasaray and the Uruguay national team. |
| Lucas van Valckenborch was a Flemish landscape painter who also made portraits, allegories, and market scenes, served as court painter to Archduke Matthias in Brussels, then moved to Austria and Germany to join relatives who left for religious reasons. |
| Lucas Veríssimo - Lucas Verissimo is a Brazilian center back playing for Al Wakrah on loan from Al Duhail. |
| Lucas Cruikshank is an American YouTuber and actor who created Fred Figglehorn and the YouTube Fred series in 2006, about a fictional six year old with a troubled home life and anger issues. |
| Lucas Rijneveld is a Dutch writer who won the 2020 International Booker Prize with translator Michele Hutchison for The Discomfort of Evening, becoming the first Dutch winner and the first non-binary recipient. |
| Lucas Black is an American actor best known as Sean Boswell in the Fast and Furious films, with roles on NCIS New Orleans and in movies like Sling Blade, Friday Night Lights, and 42. |
| Lucas Braga is a Brazilian footballer for Vitoria who mainly plays as a winger and can also play wing back. |
| Lucas Sasha is a Brazilian defensive midfielder for Fortaleza. |
| Lucas van Foreest is a Dutch chess grandmaster and the 2019 Dutch champion. |
| Esteban Lucas Bridges was an Argentine author, explorer, and rancher of English descent who fought for Britain in World War I before moving with his wife to South Africa to build a ranch with her brother. |
| Lucas van Uden was a leading Flemish landscape painter, draughtsman and engraver from Antwerp, known for collaborating with local figure painters and for the originality of his drawings. |
