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Luther vs Lutie

American parents have registered 67,421 Luthers since 1880, against 735 Luties. Luther is still ahead, with 122 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Luther against Lutie, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Luther Lutie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Luther has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1891, when Luther had 236 and Lutie had 30.

Side by side

  Luther Lutie
Total US births 67,421735
Most in one year 1,49030
Babies in 2025 122under 5
Estimated living today 21,00030
Median age today 6384
Peak year 19221891
Best rank 118th boys471st girls
Rank in 2025 1,459thunranked
First recorded 18801880
Girls / boys 435 / 66,986735 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Luties alive today are over 84; half the Luthers are over 63. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Luther and Lutie.