Landon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: (i) from the medieval French personal name Landon, from Germanic Lando; (ii) perhaps a different form of Langdon
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lændən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Landon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.2K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 29K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 71K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 455 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
151,003 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
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)
(i) from the medieval French personal name Landon, from Germanic Lando; (ii) perhaps a different form of Langdon.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Landon, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Landon 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 | — | 151,003 | 1 in 2.2K | 150K | Landon | 455 |
| CN China | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Landon | 13 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 22 | Landon | 181 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 71K | 3 | Landon | 129 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Landon | 15 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 13 | Landon | 30 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 103 | 1 in 49K | 103 | — | — |
| AX Åland Islands | #771 | — | — | — | Landon | 3 |
151,003 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Landon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Mainly U.S.: transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from any of various places in England called, Langdon, from Old English Jang ‘long’ + dan ‘hill’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
from the old Germanic personal name element Lando (see Land), via the oblique case, Landonis.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
unexplained. Possibly, as Black suggests, a reduced form of Langdon.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A habitational surname from Old English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Michael, US actor, TV director
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Landon Ronaldb. 1873GBBritish musician (1873-1938)
- Landon T. Clayb. 1926USAmerican businessman
- Travis Barkerb. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican drummer (born 1975)
- Landon Wilsonb. 1975USAmerican ice hockey player
- Landon Conradb. 1978USAmerican pornographic actor
- Landon Donovanb. 1982USAmerican soccer player
- Landon Powellb. 1982USAmerican baseball player
- Landon Piggb. 1983USactor, singer-songwriter
- Landon Liboironb. 1991CACanadian actor
- Landon Gordonb. 2009USAmerican actor
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 58 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.2K | #3,844 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.6K | #3,806 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.5K | #4,044 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- 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 given-name tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Is Landon a male or female name?
- Landon 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.
- What does the name Landon mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) from the medieval French personal name Landon, from Germanic Lando; (ii) perhaps a different form of Langdon. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Landon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 151 thousand people named Landon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled landon.
- Where is Landon most common?
- Landon is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.2 thousand people carrying it.
- What are other forms of the name Landon?
- In the etymology graph, Landyn is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Landon?
- A machine transcription gives /lændən/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Landon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 151,003 people named Landon in 2020, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Landon compared with other names?
- In Åland Islands, Landon is the 771st most common given name of 831 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/landonThe 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, “Landon” — the 771st most common given name in Åland Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.