Landman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Someone who lives or works on land, as opposed to a seaman
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫændmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Landman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 17Kas לנדמן(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 6.3K
- USUnited States1 in 143K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Landman itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,730 people, 2007
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled לנדמן in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon.
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)
Someone who lives or works on land, as opposed to a seaman.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Landman 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 2,730 | 1 in 6.3K | 2.7K | Landman | 5 |
| US United States | 2,319 | 1 in 143K | 2.3K | Landman | 51 |
| RO Romania | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | לנדמן | 2 |
| IL Israel | 515as לנדמן | 1 in 17K | 515 | לנדמן | 33 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | לנדמן | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 60as Landmann | 1 in 140K | 60 | — | 2 |
2,730 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Landman 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 Dutch, variant of Lander.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Dutch, farmer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Isaac Landmanb. 1880American rabbi
- Adam Landmanb. 1902PLPolish philosopher (1902–1969)
- Hannie Landmanb. 1949actress
- Tanya Landmanb. 1950GBBritish children's writer
- Jonathan Landmanb. 1952USAmerican journalist
- Fred Landmanb. 1956NLIsraeli linguist
- Yuri Landmanb. 1973NLLuthier, comics artist
- Anke Jannie Landmanb. 1974NLDutch speed skater
- Emil Landmanb. 1989NLDutch folk musician
- Louis Landmanactor
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 2.7K | #398 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,184 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,931 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,873 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Landman mean, and where does it come from?
- Someone who lives or works on land, as opposed to a seaman. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Landman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫændmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Landman have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Landman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled landman.
- Where is Landman most common?
- Landman is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Landman?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,730 people named Landman in 2007, about 1 in 6.3 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/landmanThe 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, “Landman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.