Landry
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from the medieval personal name Landry, ultimately of Germanic origin, literally ‘land-powerful’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/landʲɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Landry is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Algeria it is the 6th most common surname.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 2.4K
- CNChina≈1 in 3.5K
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 Landry 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 463 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 419 (inferred from the name graph)
≈400,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Laos, 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)
from the medieval personal name Landry, ultimately of Germanic origin, literally ‘land-powerful’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
How Landry is read(measured from records)
Landry 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.
- English80%
from the medieval personal name Landry, ultimately of Germanic origin, literally ‘land-powerful’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- French8.6%
French form of Germanic Landri, from elements meaning 'land' + 'ruler'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
du nom germanique Landric, de land « pays » et rīc « puissant »
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
altération de Laglanderie, apparemment de La Glanderie, le nom d’une localité dans les Yvelines
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Origine germanique, signifie « terre puissante ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
Landry 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 | — | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Landry | 13 |
| US United States | #852 | 39,391 | 1 in 8.4K | 39K | Landry | 463 |
| DZ Algeria | #6 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Landry | 3 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 419 | — | Landry | 10 |
| CA Canada | #266 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 6 | Landry | 219 |
| GY Guyana | — | 666as London | 1 in 1.1K | 666 | — | 3 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 51as London | 1 in 2K | 51 | — | 1 |
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
Landry is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from the Germanic personal name Landric, a compound of land ‘land’ -f- nc ‘powerful’, ‘ruler’. FOREBEARS! The name has been recorded in Quebec City since 1659, taken there from Perche, France. In LA, Landry families of Acadian origin are numerous.
as a nameDictionary of American Family 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)
- Jean Landryb. 1826FRFrench physician (1826–1865)
- Nelly Landryb. 1916FRBelgian-French tennis player
- Tom Landryb. 1924USAmerican football coach and player (1924–2000)
- Bernard Landryb. 1937CACanadian politician (1937-2018)
- Charles Landryb. 1948GBEnglish businessman and author
- Jeff Landryb. 1970USAmerican politician (born 1970)
- Ali Landryb. 1973USAmerican actress
- Carl Landryb. 1983USAmerican basketball player (born 1983)
- Alexandre Landryb. 1985CACanadian actor
- Ghislaine Landryb. 1988CACanadian rugby union and sevens player
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 54 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 39K | #884 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 38K | #828 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 38K | #907 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 23 | #602 |
| 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)
- 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
- What does the name Landry mean, and where does it come from?
- from the medieval personal name Landry, ultimately of Germanic origin, literally ‘land-powerful’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Landry have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 399 thousand people named Landry in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled landry.
- How common is the name Landry?
- In the United States, the national register counted 39,391 people named Landry in 2010, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Landry compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Landry is the 6th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Landry?
- A machine transcription gives /landʲɹi/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/landryThe 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, “Landry” — the 6th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.