Given name & surname · also Old Norse
Lute
“stooping”
Lute is a surname from Old Norse, ultimately from Germanic.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Lute comes from Old Norse, and ultimately from Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1883. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lute through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 155 as a first name in 2020; 1,685 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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