Landa
Feminine · “Basque 'field”
Landa is a two-syllable name from the middle of the twentieth century that sits one vowel from Linda. As a word it is old: in Basque landa is a field, and its French cousin lande named a whole region of heath that people turned into one of Europe's largest planted forests.
How old is the name Landa?
Landa first appears in US birth records in 1938 — 87 years ago. The typical Landa alive today was born around 1961, making them about 64 years old. About 500 people named Landa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Landa most popular?
Landa peaked in 1948, reaching #1858 nationally. See the whole 1948 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Landa
Landa is Basque for a field, and the related French word lande means open heath; it gave its name to the Landes, the sandy, marshy country of southwest France. From the late eighteenth century engineers planted grasses and pines to stop the coastal dunes from marching inland, and in the nineteenth century the whole region was drained and sown with maritime pine, creating one of the largest planted forests in Europe. In the United States Landa also appears as a girl's name in the years when Linda was one of the commonest names in the country, and nothing records whether those families were thinking of the word, the surname, or simply a different vowel.
Meaningscholars disagree
Basque 'field', or a variant of Linda
Landa is a Basque word for a field or meadow and a Spanish and Basque surname. The American girls' name of the mid-century may instead be Linda with another vowel; the record does not say which.
Pronouncing Landa
LAN-duh
Two syllables, stress on the first.
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1938
- Most girls named
- 194826 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1858reached in 1948
- Change vs 1990
- +60.0%8 in 1994, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Landa in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Landa in Basque — same name
- Lande in French — related form
- Linda in English — related form
Landas among us
people named Landa are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
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Fashion outlook
Landa sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Short and easy to say.
- Carries a real word from Basque with a long history.
- Rare, so a Landa is unlikely to share her name.
- People will hear Linda or Lana and write it that way.
- Its meaning depends on which road a family took, so the answer has two parts.
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- How many Landas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Landa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Landa in 2025?
- Landa is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Landa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More L names
The most-given names starting with L, all years combined.
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