Lucas Family History
- Lucas Name Meaning
- English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, etc.: from the Latin personal name Lucas (Greek Loukas) ‘man from Lucania’. Lucania is a region of southern Italy thought to have been named in ancient times with a word meaning ‘bright’ or ‘shining’. Compare Lucio. The Christian name owed its enormous popularity throughout Europe in the Middle Ages to St. Luke the Evangelist, hence the development of this surname and many vernacular derivatives in most of the languages of Europe. Compare Luke. This is also found as an Americanized form of Greek Loukas. Scottish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lùcais (see McLucas).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 4,557,153 Historical Documents with Lucas on Ancestry
- 1,480,835 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 721,869 Census and Voter Lists
- 127,221 Military Records
- 84,246 Immigration Records
- 2,142,982 Member Trees
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Number of Lucas families
 506 - 1,010  169 - 505 |
 1 - 168  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Lucas families
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1,129 - 2,256 377 - 1,128 |
1 - 376 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lucas families
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34 - 66 12 - 33 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- Confederate
- 730
- Union
- 1,314
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