Lutze Surname
Approximately 4,233 people bear this surname
Lutze Surname Definition:
(German) Descendant of Luizo, a pet form of names beginning with Luete (people), as Liutbald, Liutgard and Liutwin; one who came from Lutz (small place), in Germany.
Lutze Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2,819 | 1:28,558 | 3,759 |
| United States | 718 | 1:504,817 | 42,410 |
| Australia | 511 | 1:52,829 | 6,522 |
| Canada | 37 | 1:995,827 | 74,831 |
| South Africa | 35 | 1:1,547,934 | 78,799 |
| Japan | 22 | 1:5,811,104 | 40,882 |
| Switzerland | 20 | 1:410,646 | 30,429 |
| New Zealand | 17 | 1:266,372 | 23,826 |
| Denmark | 11 | 1:513,156 | 32,022 |
| Thailand | 8 | 1:8,829,793 | 476,604 |
| Poland | 8 | 1:4,751,094 | 138,864 |
| Scotland | 5 | 1:1,070,763 | 31,189 |
| Austria | 3 | 1:2,838,478 | 93,604 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 4 | 1:6,093,842 | 135,151 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 183 | 1:274,419 | 22,265 |
The alternate forms: Lütze (80) are calculated separately.
Lutze (27) may also be a first name.
Lutze Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(German) Descendant of Luizo, a pet form of names beginning with Luete (people), as Liutbald, Liutgard and Liutwin; one who came from Lutz (small place), in Germany.
Lutze Demographics
Average Lutze Salary in
United States
$47,776 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Lutze Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lutze Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Lutze is found most frequently in Germany. It can appear as a variant: Lütze. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Lutze? popularity and diffusion
It is the 109,897th most commonly held last name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,721,603 people. The surname is primarily found in Europe, where 68 percent of Lutze reside; 67 percent reside in Western Europe and 67 percent reside in Germanic Europe. Lutze is also the 2,036,353rd most commonly held first name worldwide, held by 27 people.
The last name Lutze is most numerous in Germany, where it is borne by 2,819 people, or 1 in 28,558. In Germany it is mostly concentrated in: Lower Saxony, where 19 percent live, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 13 percent live and Saxony, where 12 percent live. Outside of Germany this last name is found in 25 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 17 percent live and Australia, where 12 percent live.
Lutze Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Lutze has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Lutze surname grew 392 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it declined 25 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Lutze Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Lutze are 16.87% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 63.64% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Lutze earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 55.36% more than the national average, earning R 369,204 per year; in United States they earn 10.72% more than the national average, earning $47,776 USD per year and in Canada they earn 3.91% more than the national average, earning $51,627 CAD per year.
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Lutze Reference & Research
Lutz FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Lutze
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