Lüthy

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Lüthy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant spelling of Luthi, also found in Alsace. In Switzerland the more usual spelling is Liithi.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 344K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 7.5K
  • TCTurks & Caicos Islands≈1 in 14K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈11,000 people, est.

Sources
204 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Luthy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.

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)

variant spelling of Luthi, also found in Alsace. In Switzerland the more usual spelling is Liithi.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lüthy 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.

Where Lüthy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈11,000 est.≈1 in 126K—Luthy1
CH Switzerland#7071,1231 in 7.5K1.1KLüthy23
US United States—9681 in 344K970Luthy204
PH Philippines—≈150 est.≈1 in 715K—Luthy4
GB United Kingdom—≈150 est.≈1 in 436K—Luthy18
LB Lebanon—≈130 est.≈1 in 44K—Luthy1
AU Australia—≈97 est.≈1 in 264K—Luthy30
TC Turks & Caicos Islands#431≈4 est.≈1 in 14K—Luthy1

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 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lüthy is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Luthy

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Switzerland, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Luthy, Lúthy

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Switzerland, United States

    Also written Luthy

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, United States, Italy

    Also written Luthy

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland

    Also written Luthy

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Switzerland

    Also written Luthy

  • Norwegian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Luthy

9 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Martha Lüthy-Zobrist, b. 1876Oskar Lüthy, b. 1882Fritz Lüthy, b. 1895Herbert Lüthy, b. 1914Herbert Lüthy, b. 1918Eugen Lüthy, b. 1927Hans A. Lüthy, b. 1932Ruedi Lüthy, b. 1941Jacques Lüthy, b. 1959Anja Lüthy, b. 1962

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Lüthy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241.1K#1,042

Reference works 1

  • 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

What does the name Lüthy mean, and where does it come from?
variant spelling of Luthi, also found in Alsace. In Switzerland the more usual spelling is Liithi. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Lüthy have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Lüthy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luthy.
Where is Lüthy most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lüthy is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 7.5 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lüthy?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,123 people named Lüthy in 2024, about 1 in 7.5 thousand residents.
How common is Lüthy compared with other names?
In Turks & Caicos Islands, Lüthy is the 431st most common surname of 3,662 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Lüthy” — the 431st most common surname in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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