Last Name LUTHER

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Meaning Local: Lowther. Also, 'the son of Lothar.' This German name never became popularized in England except as Lothario. The French form was Lothaire. Martin Luther(10 November 1483 � 18 February 1546, was a German priest and professor of theology who initiated the Protestant Reformation.) has made the cognomen immortal.
The widely famed or celebrated, derived from the German 'loth' or 'laut,' loud, famed, fortunate, and 'er,' honor - "fortune and honor." 'Lauter,' German, bright, clear, pure.
Origin English, Irish, Slovakian, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank 2,438 (2000 US census) 2,438 (1990 US census)
Count 13,601 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 91.18%, or 12401 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 3.04%, or 413 total occurrences, as black,
  • 1.02%, or 139 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 2.1%, or 286 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.15%, or 156 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.51%, or 205 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


American Surnames

 One could claim that American surnames are very straightforward to describe and identify. Due to the way this country was formed, having people coming here from all over the world, the surnames simply represent all those people of different nationalities. So, we are don...

Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Scottish surnames

 Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

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