Landolt
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements land ‘land’, ‘territory’ + wait ‘power’, reign
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫænˌdoʊɫt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Landolt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 426K
- NLNetherlands1 in 557K
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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
2,776 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
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)
from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements land ‘land’, ‘territory’ + wait ‘power’, reign.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Landolt 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 2,776 | 1 in 3K | 2.8K | Landolt | 4 |
| US United States | 780 | 1 in 426K | 793 | Landolt | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 49 | 1 in 928K | 49 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 31 | 1 in 557K | 31 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
2,776 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Salomon Landoltb. 1741CHSwiss artist (1741-1818)
- Elias Landoltb. 1821CHSwiss forester (1821-1896)
- Hans Heinrich Landoltb. 1831CHSwiss chemist, 1831 - 1910
- Edmund Landoltb. 1846CHSwiss ophthalmologist (1846-1926)
- Emil Landoltb. 1895CHSwiss politician (1895-1995)
- Franz Landoltb. 1901CHSwiss politician (1901-1965)
- Adolf Landoltb. 1907CHSwiss politician (1907-1973)
- Elias Landoltb. 1926CHSwiss botanist (1926-2013)
- Arlo U. Landoltb. 1935USAmerican astronomer (1935–2022)
- Martin Landoltb. 1968CHSwiss politician
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 2.8K | #293 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 793 | #31,303 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 780 | #30,076 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 734 | #30,120 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 49 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 31 | #40,743 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #122,918 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Landolt mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements land ‘land’, ‘territory’ + wait ‘power’, reign. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Landolt?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫænˌdoʊɫt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Landolt have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Landolt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled landolt.
- Where is Landolt most common?
- Landolt is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Landolt?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 2,776 people named Landolt in 2024, about 1 in 3.0 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/landoltThe 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, “Landolt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.