Lansing
loc · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the personal name Lans (Germanic Lanzo)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lansing is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
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)
patronymic from the personal name Lans (Germanic Lanzo).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lansing counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3.8K | — | 35 |
| BR Brazil | — | 304 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 193 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 40 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 15 | — | — |
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); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Lansing 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.
In English, Robert Howell, US actor, director;
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, city, MI
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, lanthanum
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, element
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, patronymischer Familienname zu einer Kurzform des Rufnamens Lanz; 119 Träger.
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)
- John Lansing Jr.b. 1754USAmerican politician (1754-1829)
- Robert Lansingb. 1799USAmerican lawyer and politician
- Robert Lansingb. 1864USAmerican politician (1864-1928)
- Richard L. Conollyb. 1892USnot in their usual nameUnited States Navy admiral (1892–1962)
- James Bullough Lansingb. 1902USloudspeaker designer, audio company founder (1902–1949)
- Alfred Lansingb. 1921USAmerican journalist (1921-1975)
- Joi Lansingb. 1928USAmerican actress (1928–1972)
- Robert Lansingb. 1928USAmerican actor (1928-1994)
- Sherry Lansingb. 1944USAmerican film studio executive and actress
- Mike Lansingb. 1968USAmerican baseball 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.8K | #8,706 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.5K | #8,617 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.3K | #9,508 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 304 | #26,108 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 193 | #10,776 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 40 | #14,936 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
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 Lansing mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Lans (Germanic Lanzo). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lansing have the most bearers?
- Lansing is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Lansing?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lansingThe 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, “Lansing”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.