The name Luca is either the Italian and Romanian form of Lucas, meaning "from Lucania," or the Hungarian form of Lucia and Lucius, meaning "light" in Latin. The name first appeared in the Social Security Administration's top 1,000 for boy names in 2000 and debuted in the top-100 in 2019 before cracking the top-25 in 2023. It's also the name singer-actress Hilary Duff gave her firstborn son Luca Cruz, born in 2012, and the name "Suits" stars Gabriel Macht and Jacinda Barrett gave their son, born in 2014.


