• Origin: Xhosa
• Meaning: “it is love.”
• Gender: masculine
• Pronunciation: loo-TAHN-do

The name is from a Xhosa phrase meaning “it is love.”

Sources

• https://standiwe.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/xhosa-names-their-meanings/
• https://www.behindthename.com/name/luthando/submitted
• http://mokennon.albion.edu/cgi-bin/x2e.exe
• https://web.archive.org/web/20090429023852/http://members.tripod.com/Sabelo/dictionary.htm