Lando
Masculine · “land”
Lando is a genuine old Germanic name — land, the ordinary word for territory — and a tenth-century pope carried it, though almost nothing else is known of him.
How old is the name Lando?
Lando first appears in US birth records in 1911 — 114 years ago. The typical Lando is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Lando are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lando most popular?
Lando peaked in 2025, reaching #1677 nationally. Today it ranks #1677, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From land to Lando
The story of Lando
Pope Lando reigned for about six months in 913 and is the last pope to bear a name no other has used since. Lando was a Lombard name and survives as an Italian surname. Its modern American use follows a Star Wars character introduced in 1980, and it appears in the registers from that period in current use.
Meaning
land, territory
From the Germanic land, 'land' or 'territory' — the same word in English. It appears as a short form of longer compounds such as Landobert and Landolf, and as a name in its own right in Lombard Italy. The element is ordinary and the meaning undisputed.
How the name formed
- land
- Lando
Related forms: Lando · Landolf · Orlando
Pronouncing Lando
LAN-doh
Two syllables, stress on the first. Italian says it the same way with a fuller final vowel.
Nicknames for Lando
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
- 1911
- Most boys named
- 202598 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1677reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +18.1%98 in 2025, from 83
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.
Lando in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lando in Italian — same name
- Landolf in German — related form
- Orlando in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Landos among us
people named Lando are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 17,429 born in 2025 was named Lando
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 Terran test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lando's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Terran climbed just as high around 1992, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Terran's path sketches the road Lando is walking now.
Lando is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Lando is headed
Lando looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 55% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Lando beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lando in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is a genuine Lombard name rather than a modern coinage.
- A pope with a unique name in the whole papal list carries it.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- One film character carries a very strong association.
- Orlando is far commoner and will be assumed related.
- It is very new in American given-name use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Landos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Lando are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lando in 2025?
- Lando ranks #1677 among US boy names in 2025, with 98 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lando?
- About 1 in every 17,429 US boys born in 2025 was named Lando — 98 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lando with classmates?
- Lando will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Lando
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