Luther Boy Name

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The name Luther is of German origin, and means army people. The table below indicates the number of times the name Luther has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Luther**
Use of the Name Luther for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
63,846	12,274	2,658	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Luther has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Luther last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1994, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Luther**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	64	260
1881	65	249
1882	64	284
1883	69	229
1884	69	273
1885	71	259
1886	71	253
1887	63	267
1888	74	275
1889	72	270
1890	71	253
1891	71	236
1892	70	295
1893	70	271
1894	71	285
1895	73	269
1896	74	265
1897	71	271
1898	76	275
1899	81	248
1900	83	316
1901	79	244
1902	81	267
1903	80	265
1904	82	286
1905	79	308
1906	89	262
1907	91	280
1908	91	292
1909	87	347
1910	88	382
1911	100	395
1912	114	664
1913	116	748
1914	114	985
1915	115	1,200
1916	116	1,287
1917	116	1,302
1918	120	1,414
1919	117	1,383
1920	123	1,381
1921	123	1,447
1922	118	1,475
1923	126	1,332
1924	127	1,398
1925	133	1,336
1926	135	1,288
1927	139	1,256
1928	145	1,148
1929	145	1,120
1930	148	1,100
1931	156	960
1932	156	962
1933	162	871
1934	167	864
1935	169	826
1936	171	805
1937	169	861
1938	177	826
1939	184	766
1940	177	822
1941	179	843
1942	184	856
1943	190	841
1944	184	856
1945	205	699
1946	210	808
1947	222	820
1948	226	818
1949	236	747
1950	239	757
1951	255	683
1952	251	735
1953	267	681
1954	272	670
1955	268	698
1956	301	612
1957	317	579
1958	337	522
1959	340	520
1960	337	534
1961	361	486
1962	376	460
1963	379	442
1964	369	450
1965	395	395
1966	393	365
1967	447	285
1968	430	318
1969	432	337
1970	441	343
1971	457	317
1972	457	294
1973	493	248
1974	511	242
1975	525	236
1976	514	244
1977	543	234
1978	568	219
1979	558	236
1980	608	206
1981	565	229
1982	568	227
1983	578	213
1984	639	181
1985	679	171
1986	659	184
1987	729	156
1988	712	173
1989	717	190
1990	767	176
1991	877	144
1992	910	135
1993	879	147
1994	992	126
Totals:		63,846		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Luther as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Luther appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 115 times during the last 125 years.

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