Luther is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Luther is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1427 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,426 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 53,816 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Luther. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Luther is the epitome of endurance. Every year since first names have been registered in the United States, parents have come up with the idea of naming their son Luther. This means that several boys named Luther have witnessed historic events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Luther has reached its highest rank of 62 numerous times, but that was long ago before the beginning of the last century, last time in 1887. Nevertheless, the name has been in the top 100 repeatedly. This makes Luther one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Luther was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Luther will be Luther. Like every other year, there have been newborns named Luther in 2022 – in fact 111 to be precise, confirming Luther is still a popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #1,444 among all boys‘ names. For comparison, the least popular year for this first name was 2010, when only 73 baby boys were named Luther.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.1% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Luther is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all boys' names starting with an L, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with L that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Larry.
If your name is Luther and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Luther, you can simply say:
Lion
Unicorn
Tiger
Hat
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Luther
Luther
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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U
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R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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U
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Luther sounds like this:
