as a First Name
From the German surname, which is from a Germanic personal name derived from liut ‘people’ + heri, hari ‘army’. It is commonly bestowed among evangelical Protestants, in honour of the ecclesiastical reformer and theologian Martin Luther (1483–1546). In recent times it has also been bestowed in honour of the assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929–68). It was at its most popular in the United States from the 1880s up to 1910 but has since steadily declined.
| 987th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 33,546
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 52,969
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Luther per capita
- 1914
- marked the height of its popularity
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