Lukas

Lukas is Luke with a European passport. The Greek and Continental spelling of a name tied to the evangelist Luke — author of the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, whose Greek Loukas likely meant "man from Lucania" in southern Italy — this variant dominates in Germany, Austria, and Scandinavia, where it has ranked in the top 10 for years. In the United States Lukas sits around 268 and reads as a slightly more formal, slightly more international choice than Luke. Two crisp syllables, the strong final S. Clean, classical, well-traveled. A name for a child with a grandparent somewhere across the ocean.