The LUTHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,601	2438	0.005	50
United States (1880 census)	4,460	1394	0.009	89
Change since 1880	+9141	-1044	-0.004	-39
Other Countries
Australia	164	9039	0.001	10
United Kingdom	685	7026	0.001	15

Top States for LUTHER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,076	2916	0.003	32
North Carolina	1,014	1202	0.013	126
Florida	854	2398	0.005	53
Pennsylvania	800	1853	0.007	65
Texas	720	3181	0.003	35
Top States for LUTHER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	138	1121	0.013	132
North Carolina	1,014	1202	0.013	126
Wisconsin	646	916	0.012	120
Nebraska	197	931	0.012	115
Alaska	61	1297	0.010	97

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LUTHER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LUTHER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LUTHER in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LUTHER by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LUTHER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LUTHER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the LUTHER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LUTHER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	413	3.04
Native American/Alaskan	286	2.1
White (Hispanic)	205	1.51
Mixed Race	156	1.15
Asian/Pacific	139	1.02
White (Caucasian)	12,401	91.18

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LUTHER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LUTHER in historical publications

The widely famed or celebrated, derived from the German loth or laut, loud, famed, fortunate, and er, honor--"fortune and honor." Lauter, Ger., bright, clear, pure.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

LUTHER. As an English surname probably a corruption of the great northern name Lowther. It may however be identical with the Teutonic Luther, Lothaire, Lothario, &c. One of the Saxon kings of Kent was a Lothere.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to LUTHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LUTHER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.