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The luke Surname

luke Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from a derivative of Lucas. This was (and is) the common vernacular form of the name, being the one by which the author of the fourth Gospel is known in English.
  2. English: habitational name for someone from Liège in Belgium (Dutch Luik).
  3. North German (Lüke): from a short form of Lüdeke; Luedecke.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of luke Families in the US in 1920
Number of luke families
 103-203
 35-102		 1-34
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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