Landes
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Capital: Mont-de-Marsan
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫændz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Landes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 58K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 76K
- FRFrance≈1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 319 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
variant of Lande 1 (specifically also a habitational name from any of numerous places named Landes or Les Landes) and 2.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Landes is read(measured from records)
Landes is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English71%
A department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Capital: Mont-de-Marsan.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
department, France
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French12%
variant of Lande 1 (specifically also a habitational name from any of numerous places named Landes or Les Landes) and 2.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Landes (a department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Landes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Landes | 3 |
| US United States | 4,404 | 1 in 76K | 4.4K | Landes | 319 |
| FR France | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 196 | — | 5 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Landes | 87 |
| BR Brazil | 1,176 | 1 in 180K | 1.2K | — | 3 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Landes | 1 |
| PS Palestine | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Landes | 2 |
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); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Landes is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from mhd. landoese 'land-destroyer, land devastator'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, nicht Genitiv zu Land(e), sondern zu mhd. landœse ‚Landverwüster‘; 553 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Silas Z. Landesb. 1842USAmerican politician (1842-1910)
- Lewis Landesb. 1891USAmerican lawyer
- Ruth Landesb. 1908USAmerican anthropologist (1908–1991)
- David Landesb. 1924USAmerican economic historian (1924-2013)
- Aaron Landesb. 1929USAmerican rabbi
- William Landesb. 1939USAmerican legal scholar
- Richard Landesb. 1949USAmerican historian and author (born 1949)
- Steve Landesb. 1959USAmerican politician in Virginia (born 1959)
- Michael Landesb. 1972USAmerican actor
- Dawn Landesb. 1980USAmerican singer-songwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.4K | #7,550 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.3K | #7,184 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.2K | #7,646 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #7,966 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 288 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 250 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 246 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 242 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 241 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 234 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 227 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 200 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Landes come from?
- variant of Lande 1 (specifically also a habitational name from any of numerous places named Landes or Les Landes) and 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Landes?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫændz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Landes mean?
- In English, A department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Capital: Mont-de-Marsan.
- In which country does Landes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Landes in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled landes.
- How common is the name Landes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,404 people named Landes in 2010, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Landes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/landesThe 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, “Landes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.