Luster

At the 2020 census, 7,072 Americans bore the surname Luster — 4,841st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 42,300.

By the numbers

People: 7,072
Rank: 4,841st
How common: 1 in 42,300
Per 100,000: 2.4

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Borrowed from German Luster or possibly, a variant of Lester.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Luster described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 47.0%
White, not Hispanic 42.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Surnames like Luster

Lusk
Lussier

Also a first name

Luster has been given to 1,132 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 1920. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.