Luther

At the 2020 census, 13,027 Americans bore the surname Luther — 2,702nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 22,900.

By the numbers

People: 13,027
Rank: 2,702nd
How common: 1 in 22,900
Per 100,000: 4.4

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From German Luther.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.1%

Notable people called Luther

Martin Luther (1483–1546)German priest and theologian
Hans Luther (1879–1962)German chancellor
Robert Luther (1822–1900)German astronomer
Martin Luther (1895–1945)German diplomat
Paul Luther (1533–1593)German scientist
Thomas Luther (born 1969)German chess player
Charles Luther (1885–1962)Swedish sprinter

People named Luther with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Luther

Also a first name

Luther has been given to 67,421 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1922. 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.