Landan
Masculine · “long hill”
Landan is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,391 boys against 5 girls since 1880.
Landan is a spelling of Landon, and the long hill it names is one of the plainest descriptions in English place naming.
How old is the name Landan?
Landan first appears in US birth records in 1980 — 45 years ago. The typical Landan alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 2,400 people named Landan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Landan most popular?
Landan peaked in 2006, reaching #945 nationally. Today it ranks #4249, 3,304 places below that high. See the whole 2006 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Landan
Ours, offered as ours. Landon and London look alike and are unrelated: Landon is Old English for a long hill, while London's name is pre-English, probably Celtic, and has resisted explanation for centuries — proposals include a personal name, a word for a wild place and a river name, none secure. So the plain village name has an explanation and the great capital does not, which is a fair summary of how place-name evidence usually works.
Meaning
long hill
From Old English lang, long, and dun, a hill or down; the same second element names the North and South Downs and closes Ashdown, Snowdon and Huntingdon. It has nothing to do with the city of London.
Pronouncing Landan
LAN-dun
Two syllables, first stressed. Landan and Landon are said identically.
Nicknames for Landan
Moderate
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
- 1980
- Most boys named
- 2006198 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #945reached in 2006
- Change vs 2024
- +20.0%24 in 2025, from 20
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.
Landan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Landon in English — spelling variant
- Langdon in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Mississippi, Florida, Texas.
Landans among us
people named Landan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 71,170 born in 2025 was named Landan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Rustin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Landan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rustin climbed just as high around 1979, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rustin's path sketches the road Landan is walking now.
Landan sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Landan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Landan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled place-name meaning that is completely transparent.
- Dan is a complete short form in its own right.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Landon is the standard spelling and will be written for him constantly.
- Landan, Landen, Landyn and Landon are four live spellings of one name.
- It is close to London, which is an unrelated name.
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Masculine · #4249 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Landans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,400 people named Landan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Landan in 2025?
- Landan ranks #4249 among US boy names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Landan?
- About 1 in every 71,170 US boys born in 2025 was named Landan — 24 in all.
- Will my child share the name Landan with classmates?
- Landan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Landan
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