Meaning of the nameLucca

Lucca is a spelling of the name Luca, which means “probably 'from Lucania', a region of southern Italy”.

Meaning

“probably 'from Lucania', a region of southern Italy”

Meaning of the name Luca, of which Lucca is a spelling.

People (2022): 40,407
Rank in Brazil: #663
Median age: 4 years
2010 Census: 6,456; people

Lucca in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Lucca, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in 2020 to 2022 (16,776 people).

379 women 40,028 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Lucca is most common

States with the highest share of people named Lucca in the population, in the 2022 Census.

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	15,776	0.036%
Minas Gerais	4,867	0.024%
Rio de Janeiro	3,356	0.021%
Rio Grande do Sul	2,620	0.024%
Paraná	2,348	0.021%
Bahia	2,020	0.014%
Santa Catarina	1,834	0.024%
Pernambuco	869	0.010%
Goiás	813	0.012%
Distrito Federal	770	0.027%
Espírito Santo	755	0.020%
Ceará	648	0.007%
Pará	534	0.007%
Amazonas	400	0.010%
Alagoas	399	0.013%
Paraíba	347	0.009%
Maranhão	345	0.005%
Sergipe	322	0.015%
Rio Grande do Norte	307	0.009%
Mato Grosso	285	0.008%
Mato Grosso do Sul	264	0.010%
Piauí	193	0.006%
Tocantins	109	0.007%
Rondônia	72	0.005%
Amapá	59	0.008%
Roraima	55	0.009%
Acre	40	0.005%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

The spelling Lucca

This is the most common spelling in the group, with cc, like the name of the Italian city of Lucca, in Tuscany; the records are concentrated among those born from 2010 on.

About the name Luca

Behind the Name gives Luca as the Italian and Romanian form of Lucas, and Wiktionary traces Italian Luca to Latin Lūcās, which comes from Greek Loukâs. According to Behind the Name, the Greek name is probably a shortened form of Loukanos, 'from Lucania', but it may also derive from Latin Lucius. It is the name of the evangelist Luke, to whom tradition attributes the third gospel of the New Testament. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 24,507 people named Luca, with a median age of 8; almost all were born from the 1990s on and, proportionally, the name is most common in the Distrito Federal.

Other spellings of Luca

Spelling	People (2022)
Lucca	40,407
Luca	24,507

Sources

Wiktionary: Luca · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Behind the Name: Luca · behindthename.com · origin
Behind the Name: Luke · behindthename.com · meaning
Wiktionary: Lucas · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Wiktionary: Lucca · en.wiktionary.org · spelling

Questions about the name Lucca

What does the name Lucca mean?

Lucca means “probably 'from Lucania', a region of southern Italy”, according to Behind the Name. This is the meaning of the name Luca, of which Lucca is a spelling.

How many people are named Lucca in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 40,407 people with the first name Lucca, which ranks it number 663 among the country's names. The largest group was born in 2020 to 2022.

Is Lucca a boy's or a girl's name?

Lucca is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 379 women and 40,028 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Lucca?

Lucca is a name of Greek, Latin and Italian origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Lucca most common?

Proportionally, in São Paulo: 0.036% of the state's population is named Lucca (15,776 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Lucca?

Luca. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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