Lutes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: apparently a patronymic from Lute
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ljuːts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lutes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 90K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
- BRBrazil1 in 901K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 90K (inferred from the name graph)
3,695 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
apparently a patronymic from Lute.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lutes counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,695 | 1 in 90K | 3.8K | Lutes | 71 |
| BR Brazil | 235 | 1 in 901K | 235 | Lutes | 31 |
| AR Argentina | 29 | 1 in 1.6M | 29 | Lutes | 22 |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 9.6M | — | Lutes | 3 |
3,695 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lutes is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, second-person singular present subjunctive of lutar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Della T. Lutesb. 1867UScookbook author
- Eric Lutesb. 1962USAmerican actor
- Jason Lutesb. 1967USAmerican cartoonist and comic creator
- Brett Lutesb. 1982CAice hockey player
- Jordan Lutesb. 1991CACanadian singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.8K | #8,107 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.7K | #8,862 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.4K | #9,265 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 235 | #32,223 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 29 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #52,206 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lutes mean, and where does it come from?
- apparently a patronymic from Lute. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lutes?
- A machine transcription gives /ljuːts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lutes have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Lutes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lutes.
- Where is Lutes most common?
- Lutes is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 90 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lutes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,695 people named Lutes in 2010, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lutesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lutes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.