Landin
Masculine · “long hill”
Landin is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,667 boys against 16 girls since 1880.
Landin is Landon with the last vowel changed, and Landon is an English place name meaning a long hill. It is also, separately, a genuine Swedish surname, built the way Swedish surnames often are from a landscape word and an -in ending. Both are real and the spelling does not distinguish them.
How old is the name Landin?
Landin first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Landin alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 2,600 people named Landin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Landin most popular?
Landin peaked in 2007, reaching #883 nationally. Today it ranks #5045, 4,162 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.
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Where it comes from
From lang-dun to Landin
The story of Landin
English surnames from landscape gave America a great many first names, and Landon rose fast in the two-thousands; respellings followed at once, as they always do, and Landin, Landen and Landyn all appeared. Meanwhile Swedish immigrants had been bringing the surname Landin to the Midwest since the nineteenth century, where it sat quietly as a family name. The two roads reach the same six letters, and most American families choosing it now are on the first.
Meaningscholars disagree
long hill, through Landon
The English road: Old English lang, long, and dun, a hill, giving Langdon and Landon. The Swedish road: land, a country or land, with the -in ending that Swedish soldiers' and craftsmen's surnames used from the seventeenth century. American Landins descend from either, and often from neither, since the name is also a respelling.
How the name formed
- lang-dun
- Landon
- Landin
Related forms: Landon · Landin
Pronouncing Landin
LAN-dun
Two syllables, stress in front, said exactly like Landon. Swedish says LAN-deen with the second vowel long.
Nicknames for Landin
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
- 1983
- Most boys named
- 2007228 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #883reached in 2007
- Change vs 2024
- +26.7%19 in 2025, from 15
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.
Landin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Landon in English — spelling variant
- Landin in Swedish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Michigan, California.
Landins among us
people named Landin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 89,899 born in 2025 was named Landin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Landin
- #5045
- Landin on the 2025 chart
- #720
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Landin went to 19 boys in 2025, but Landyn is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 209, which makes it the 720th most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,325 places above the chart.
- Landyn190
- Landin19
About 1 boy in 8,173 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 89,899 for Landin itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Armin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Landin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Armin climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Armin's path sketches the road Landin is walking now.
Landin 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
Landin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Landin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The English meaning is a plain landscape feature and needs no explaining.
- It has a genuine Swedish surname history for families with that connection.
- Every sound is ordinary English, so nobody stumbles.
- Landon is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected constantly.
- Landon, Landin, Landen and Landyn are all said identically.
- Landin and London are close enough to be confused by people writing quickly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Landins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,600 people named Landin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Landin?
- Landin is one of 2 recorded spellings. Landyn is the more common one — 190 births in 2025 against 19 for Landin.
- How popular is the name Landin in 2025?
- Landin ranks #5045 among US boy names in 2025, with 19 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Landin?
- About 1 in every 89,899 US boys born in 2025 was named Landin — 19 in all.
- Will my child share the name Landin with classmates?
- Landin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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