Luther
Luther is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 119 births. Its best rank was 63rd, in 1887.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1190.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19221,477 births
- Best rank
- #63in 1887
- Since 1880
- 66,862people given the name
The story in the numbers
66,862 boys have been named Luther in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 1,477 births — 0.14% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 119 births in 2024, against 1,477 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 115 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 32 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Luther | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,619 | |
| 1890s | 2,668 | |
| 1900s | 2,866 | |
| 1910s | 9,762 | |
| 1920s | 13,197 | |
| 1930s | 8,860 | |
| 1940s | 8,139 | |
| 1950s | 6,480 | |
| 1960s | 4,069 | |
| 1970s | 2,615 | |
| 1980s | 1,934 | |
| 1990s | 1,233 | |
| 2000s | 869 | |
| 2010s | 958 | |
| 2020s | 593 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Luther was the 118th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Luther
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Claudepeak 1920
- Granvillepeak 1918
- Rufuspeak 1922
- Roscoepeak 1920
- Monroepeak 1921
- Melvillepeak 1918
- Frankpeak 1918
- Sampeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.