Landon
Feminine · “long hill”
Landon is given to boys far more often — 186,603 boys against 1,182 girls since 1880. See Landon as a boy name
Landon is an English place-name that describes a hill: a long one, low and wide rather than steep. It became a surname, then an American first name, and it is given overwhelmingly to boys, with a small and steady share of girls alongside them.
How old is the name Landon?
Landon first appears in US birth records in 1943 — 82 years ago. The typical Landon alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 1,200 people named Landon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Landon most popular?
Landon peaked in 2017, reaching #2664 nationally. Today it ranks #4758, 2,094 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
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Where it comes from
From lang-dun to Landon
The story of Landon
English families took their surnames from the land they lived on, and a long low hill was a landmark worth naming. Landon and Langdon are the same word written by different clerks, and both crossed to America early. The surname moved to the front of the name in the twentieth century, and the girls' use came later, in the general American movement of surname-names across the line. That movement runs almost entirely one way: boys' names become usable for girls far more readily than the reverse.
Meaning
long hill
Old English lang, long, joined to dun, a hill or down. The same dun closes Congdon and Snowdon, and stands alone in the English word down for open high ground.
How the name formed
- lang-dun
- Langdon
- Landon
Pronouncing Landon
LAN-dun
Two syllables, stress in front. Nothing about it changes between the two sexes.
Nicknames for Landon
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
- 1943
- Most girls named
- 201765 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2664reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- −3.4%28 in 2025, from 29
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.
Landon in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Landons among us
people named Landon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 57,402 born in 2025 was named Landon
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 Asusena test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Landon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Asusena climbed just as high around 2001, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Asusena's path sketches the road Landon is walking now.
Landon 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
Where Landon is headed
Landon is easing off slowly — about 25% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues. 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.
Landon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Landon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is plain, documented and geographical rather than a claim about a person.
- Everyone can spell it after hearing it once.
- It has soft short forms available, Lanie and Landy, which give a girl room to choose her register.
- The spelling goes overwhelmingly to boys, so a girl called Landon will be filed on the wrong list often, and corrected all her life.
- Landon and London differ by one letter and are constantly swapped in writing.
- It carries no history of use for girls, so there is no tradition to point to when someone queries it.
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Feminine · #4758 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Landons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Landon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Landon in 2025?
- Landon ranks #4758 among US girl names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Landon?
- About 1 in every 57,402 US girls born in 2025 was named Landon — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Landon with classmates?
- Landon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Landon
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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