Luthe
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Liith (see Lueth)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʎʉθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Luthe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 123K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- NANamibia≈1 in 215K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Luthe itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 123K (inferred from the name graph)
≈650 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Luethe in KE Kenya.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Englishluthere(measured from records)
- Old Englishlydre(measured from records)
variant of Liith (see Lueth). Luther(5404) 1 . German: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements Hut ‘people’, ‘tribe’ + heri, hari ‘army’. 2. English: nickname from Middle English luther(e), lither(e) ‘bad’, ‘wicked’, ‘base’ (from Old English lydre).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Luthe 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Luthe | 70 |
| US United States | 247 | 1 in 1.3M | 255 | Luthe | 104 |
| KE Kenya | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 668K | — | Luethe | 1 |
| PL Poland | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 966K | — | Luthe | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Luthe | 7 |
| IL Israel | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 634K | — | Luthe | 2 |
| NA Namibia | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 215K | 1 | — | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 582K | — | Luthe | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 430K | — | Luthe | 1 |
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; ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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)
Luthe 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 German, from the place name Luthe near Hannover
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Josephine M. Lutheb. 1856American lawyer
- Hubert Lutheb. 1927DEGerman Catholic bishop (1927–2014)
- Claus Lutheb. 1932DEGerman automobile designer (1932–2008)
- Ernst-Wilhelm Lutheb. 1957DEGerman jurist
- Andreas Lutheb. 1987DEGerman footballer
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 255 | #71,372 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 247 | #77,522 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 235 | #85,600 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Luthe come from?
- variant of Liith (see Lueth). Luther(5404) 1 . German: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements Hut ‘people’, ‘tribe’ + heri, hari ‘army’. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Luthe?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎʉθ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Luthe mean?
- Recorded meaning: variant of Liith (see Lueth).
- In which country does Luthe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 650 people named Luthe in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luthe.
- How common is the name Luthe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 247 people named Luthe in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lutheThe 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, “Luthe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.