Is Luca a male or female name?
Luca is predominantly associated with male records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns male at 99%, based on 190,706 observations.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 99%
- Sample size
- 190,706
- Confidence
- high
Luca by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | male | 98% | 70,245 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | male | 99% | 37,427 | ons |
| Switzerland CH | male | 99% | 22,155 | bfs |
| France FR | male | 100% | 17,405 | insee |
| Spain ES | male | 100% | 16,743 | ine |
| Canada CA | male | 98% | 11,677 | statcan |
| Austria AT | male | 99% | 10,605 | statat |
| Ireland IE | male | 99% | 2,196 | cso |
| Poland PL | male | 98% | 1,269 | pesel |
| Norway NO | male | 100% | 984 | ssb |
Attested in 25 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · DE · ES · FR · GB · HR · HU · IE · IN · IT · LI · LU · MT · NL · NO · NZ · PL · RO · SE · SM · US
Luca over time
In the United States, 0% of the babies named Luca in the 1970s were girls, against 1.2% in the 2020s. In France, 0% of the babies named Luca in the 1980s were girls, against 0% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0% | 117 | — | |
| 1980s | 5% | 265 | 0% | 175 |
| 1990s | 2% | 734 | 0% | 2,520 |
| 2000s | 5% | 7,626 | 0% | 6,900 |
| 2010s | 3% | 25,665 | 0% | 5,320 |
| 2020s | 1% | 35,720 | 0% | 2,355 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Luca with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Luca&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Luca
Is Luca a male or female name?
Luca is predominantly associated with male records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns male at 99%, based on 190,706 observations.
Why can the result for Luca change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Luca identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.