I agree. In 1987, when I told a Presbyterian friend of mine that a few Lutheran groups would merge and form the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, he said, “I’m surprised ‘evangelical’ is in the name. I never heard of any Lutherans going door-to-door, to talk about their church.” I said that I was surprised by the name, too.
One reason may be that in Germany the Lutherans are called the Evangelichekirche