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Ultimately Latin &/or Greek name which means “man from Lucania” - Lucania being a historic region of Southern Italy. The name Lucania is derived from “luc” the Osco-Sabellic people’s word for “light” which has the same meaning in the Latin idiom. Thus, Lucas could mean “man from the land from which there is light“.
An Americanized version of the Hungarian surname Lukács.

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