Lándis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lándis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname for a highwayman or for someone who lays waste to the land. Middle High German landoese.
- USUnited States1 in 18K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 21K
- FIFinland1 in 253K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
18,826 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Landis in US United States, BR Brazil, CH Switzerland.
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)
nickname for a highwayman or for someone who lays waste to the land. Middle High German landoese.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lándis 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 | 18,826 | 1 in 18K | 19K | Landis | 126 |
| CH Switzerland | 409 | 1 in 21K | 409 | Landis | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 114 | 1 in 1.9M | 114 | Landis | 32 |
| FI Finland | 22 | 1 in 253K | 22 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
18,826 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lándis mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a highwayman or for someone who lays waste to the land. Middle High German landoese. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Lándis a male or female name?
- Lándis is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lándis have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Lándis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled landis.
- Where is Lándis most common?
- Lándis is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lándis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,826 people named Lándis in 2010, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A1ndisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Lándis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.