Luka (given name)
Luka is a Slavic masculine given name. It may also be a transliteration of the Japanese name Ruka.
The male name Luka comes from the Latin word "Lucanus" which means a man from Lucania.
In Croatia, the name Luka was among the most common masculine given names in the decades between 1990 and 2011, and was the most common name in the 2000s.
Notable people bearing the name include:
- Luka Andrade, Argentine footballer
- Luka Baković, Croatian para-athlete
- Luka Bebić, Croatian politician, former Speaker of the Croatian Parliament
- Luka Bilobrk, Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- Luka Bogdanović, Serbian basketball player
- Luka Brajkovic, Austrian basketball player
- Luka Dončić, Slovenian basketball player
- Luka Drašković, Montenegrin chess player
- Luka Đorđević, Montenegrin football player
- Luka Garza, American basketball player of Bosnian descent
- Luka Hyryläinen, Finnish footballer
- Luka Ivanović, Serbian singer and songwriter known as Luke Black
- Luka Jones, American actor and comedian, born Luka Yovetich
- Luka Jović, Serbian football player
- Luka Kaliterna, Croatian football player and manager
- Luka Kuittinen, Finnish footballer
- Luka Magnotta, Canadian porn actor and murderer, born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman
- Luka Marić, Croatian biologist
- Luka Marić, Croatian football player
- Luka Marić, Austrian football player
- Luka Menalo, Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- Luka Merdović, Montenegrin football player
- Luka Mikulić, Bosnian football player
- Luka Milivojević, Serbian football player
- Luka Mirković, Montenegrin football player
- Luka Mitrović, Serbian basketball player
- Luka Modrić, Croatian football player
- Luka Nakov, Bulgarian-Macedonian football player
- Luka Pavićević, Montenegrin football player and coach
- Luka "Perkz" Perković, Croatian esports player
- Luka Peruzović, Croatian football player and manager
- Luka Rakić, Montenegrin sprinter
- Luka Romero, Argentine footballer
- Luka Stankovski, Macedonian football player
- Luka Stepančić, Croatian handball player
- Luka Svetec, Slovenian politician, lawyer, author, and philologist
- Luka Šamanić, Croatian basketball player
- Luka Šulić, Croatian-Slovenian cellist
- Luka Vušković, Croatian football player
- Luka Žorić, Croatian basketball player
Fictional characters
- Luka Couffaine, a character in the animated television series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
- Luka Kovač, a character in the television series ER
- The subject of the 1987 Suzanne Vega song "Luka"
- Luka Lemmens, a minor character in the Belgian series wtFOCK
- Luka Macken or Ruka Makken, a character in the anime Black Butler
- Luka Millfy or Ruka Mirufi, a character in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger
- Megurine Luka/Luka Megurine, a Vocaloid developed by Crypton Future Media
- Luka Redgrave, a character in the Bayonetta series
- Luka Smithee, a character in The Wonderful 101
- Urushibara Luka or Urushibara Ruka, a character in the visual novel Steins;Gate
- Luka, a character in the game Honkai: Star Rail
- Luka, a character from the webseries Alien Stage.