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Luc is a French masculine given name and occasional a diminutive form of other names. Notable persons and characters with this name include: Luc Abalo (born 1984), French handball player; Luc Arbogast (born 1975), French musician, singer, and songwriter; Luc Berthold, Canadian politician; Luc Besson (born 1959), French film director ...
[citation needed] It is also a French and Italian feminine given name, variant of Lucia and Lucy, or masculine name, variant of Luc (given name). Meaning of given name Luce is "light". The English Luce surname is taken from the Norman language that was Latin-based and derives from place names in Normandy based on Latin male personal name Lucius.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
Luyckx (pronounced ⓘ) is a Dutch patronymic surname based on an archaic spelling of the given name Luuk/Luc, short forms of Lucas. [1] The name has a myriad of spellings, all pronounced the same. While in Belgium Luyckx is by far the most common (3433 people in 2008), [ 2 ] in the Netherlands the forms Luijkx , Luijks , Luijk , Luik and ...
L.U.C., stage name of Łukasz Rostkowski, Polish rapper and music producer, creator of the film score for the 2023 film The Peasants; Luc (given name) Luc (surname)
Aino-Eevi Lukas (1930–2019), Estonian equestrian, lawyer and politician.; D. Wayne Lukas (born 1935), American horse racing trainer; György Lukács, Hungarian philosopher; J. Anthony Lukas, American journalist
Luke / ˈ l uː k / is a male given name, and less commonly, a surname. The name Luke is the English form and the diminutive of the Latin name Lucas. Although the name is attested in ancient inscriptions, the best known historical use of the name is in the New Testament. The Gospel of Luke was written around 70 to 90 AD (the exact years are ...
Related names Luke , Lukas , Luc , Luca , Łukasz Lucas is a Latin masculine given name (from the verb "lucere" - "to shine"), from which the English name Luke comes.