first name
LUTHER
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 19,674 people named Luther, 59.3% reported their origin as White, 32.5% as Black and 3.5% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Luther peaked in 1922, when 1,490 babies got the name.
At least 67,421 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Luther by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #177. The largest share of babies named Luther, 34.8%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Luther is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Luther has been most common in Mississippi (4.6×), South Carolina (4.5×), and Arkansas (3.5×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.03×).
54,091 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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Also a last name
As a last name, Luther ranks #2,702 of 156,621, with 13,027 people. See Luther as a last name
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