Lether
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lether is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Obsolete spelling of leather.
- USUnited States1 in 17Kas Luther(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 127Kas Luther
- CRCosta Rica1 in 392Kas Luther
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lether 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
19,674 named Luther, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States, as Luther
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Luther in US United States.
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)
Obsolete spelling of leather.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lether 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 | 19,674as Luther | 1 in 17K | 20K | Luther | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | 136as Luther | 1 in 127K | 156 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 113as Luther | 1 in 1.9M | 113 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 13as Luther | 1 in 392K | 13 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 7as Luther | 1 in 796K | 102 | — | — |
19,674 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Lether is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, leather (tanned animal hides)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kw, letter, epistle
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1927 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1917 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1931 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1928 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1929 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1926 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 8 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Lether mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete spelling of leather. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Lether have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Luther, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lether most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Lether itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is United States's: the national register counts about 1 in 17 thousand people named Luther.
- How common is the name Lether?
- In the United States, the national register counted 19,674 people named Luther in 2020, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/letherThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Lether”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.