Luck Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Your Luck ancestor may well appear as Luc in earlier records. The family name meaning is “From Luke”, the same as for Luc. Before spelling was fixed, Luc was also written Luck. Other spellings include Luce.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Luck with 6,008 bearers, at rank 5,765. That puts it inside the top 10,000 US surnames. 652 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Luck name at birth.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Luck, so the heraldry linked to Luc is a starting point, not an automatic right. For the full story, order the Luck surname pack.