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Landon

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#127
2,840 boys
2015
#46
rank
1950
#1,153
rank

Landon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,840 in 2025. Its best rank was #33 in 2010.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #33 in 2010; #127 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Landon in 2025 were boys.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#127 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #33.

Babies in 2025
2,868
Since 1880
187,785
Years on record
135

Babies named Landon, every year since 1880

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Boys

Landon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,840 boys in 2025. Peak: #33 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 10,483 (2010).

About the name Landon

In 2025, 2,840 US boys were named Landon, making it the 127th most common boys’ name of the year, down 21 places from #106 in 2024. That is 484 fewer than the 3,324 boys named Landon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #33, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 10,483. For comparison, it was #46 in 2015 and #1,153 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Landon in 135 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 6 babies. In all, 187,785 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 79,702 babies named Landon.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 48,016 US boys were named Landon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 7,046. In 2025 that was about 1 in 601 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Landon ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #51 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 10 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Lanny (9,644 babies since 1880), Landen (27,065 babies since 1880), Landyn (13,456 babies since 1880) and Landin (2,683 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Landynn, Laundyn and Landun are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Landynn (233), Laundyn (26), Landun (23), Landonn (15), Landenn (10), Lanndon (6), Landyon (5), Landdon (5).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Landon in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Landon by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 2 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Delaware17#51#33
New Hampshire23#62#60
Rhode Island15#70#36
Michigan116#77#28
Mississippi34#78#12
Ohio145#80#31
South Carolina62#81#21
Pennsylvania145#84#27
Wisconsin62#98#32
Oregon39#99#46
Minnesota61#103#52
Virginia81#104#26
West Virginia19#105#13
Montana12#106#26
Wyoming5#108#26
Connecticut34#114#50
Georgia101#116#29
North Carolina104#116#27
New York156#117#79
Louisiana44#117#21
Maryland48#123#53
Maine11#124#20
New Jersey76#129#66
Alabama43#129#18
Florida167#129#50
New Mexico15#132#85
Massachusetts54#133#56
Illinois85#139#55
Colorado51#140#60
California273#140#88
Indiana58#140#23
Iowa30#141#33
Missouri49#144#31
Arkansas24#155#27
Washington54#156#44
Alaska6#158#28
Idaho18#158#34
Arizona56#160#65
North Dakota8#165#53
Texas222#166#65
Kansas23#170#26
Kentucky33#170#25
Tennessee56#174#29
Nevada17#179#57
Utah29#191#50
Oklahoma26#194#47
Nebraska13#202#22
Hawaii5#242#43
South Dakota6#245#36

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202528#4,8232,840#127
202429#4,7223,324#106
202342#3,6823,655#97
202234#4,2584,032#86
202149#3,2774,606#73
202048#3,2544,783#69
201948#3,3085,512#63
201862#2,7685,860#61
201765#2,6826,358#57
201653#3,1217,046#53
201532#4,4567,948#46
201412#9,2918,249#43
201326#5,2308,752#39
201223#5,8109,356#35
201129#4,8739,761#34
201027#5,18610,483#33
200926#5,47310,169#36
200827#5,3759,361#45
200726#5,4619,103#49
200625#5,4689,574#50
200523#5,5337,110#61
200450#3,1075,042#86
200327#4,7464,412#97
200220#5,7912,722#142
200123#5,1001,881#194
200026#4,6071,758#200
199916#6,3551,715#196
199820#5,2621,644#202
199716#6,0371,545#203
199624#4,3931,396#216
199518#5,3331,224#238
199423#4,4481,157#249
199320#4,9211,120#255
199215#6,1701,036#277
199117#5,540913#285
19905#14,189760#326
198913#6,360752#319
198813#6,092724#311
198716#4,970658#319
198610#6,879631#321
198512#5,856605#327
19846#9,779574#328
1983——580#327
198210#6,619574#332
198112#5,740493#357
19805#11,276375#424
197911#5,954391#402
19785#10,604293#477
19775#10,452255#519
1976——219#545
1975——212#555
19745#9,474133#714
1973——82#882
1972——111#755
1971——108#784
1970——108#793
1969——110#749
1968——69#872
1967——66#889
1966——64#908
1965——72#868
1964——67#934
1963——66#925
1962——59#1,000
1961——60#1,010
1960——49#1,125
1959——34#1,351
1958——33#1,355
1957——37#1,290
1956——30#1,431
1955——26#1,524
1954——29#1,424
1953——31#1,367
1952——41#1,161
1951——37#1,208
1950——39#1,153
1949——24#1,530
1948——36#1,207
1947——32#1,312
1946——29#1,317
1945——23#1,400
1944——35#1,128
19435#5,02634#1,177
1942——39#1,101
1941——25#1,355
1940——41#1,014
1939——35#1,097
1938——31#1,186
1937——60#796
1936——174#422
1935——46#934
1934——19#1,643
1933——18#1,682
1932——35#1,149
1931——20#1,616
1930——39#1,129
1929——29#1,328
1928——37#1,180
1927——36#1,215
1926——35#1,235
1925——17#1,971
1924——38#1,176
1923——49#1,004
1922——42#1,095
1921——43#1,081
1920——31#1,310
1919——36#1,180
1918——25#1,480
1917——24#1,463
1916——37#1,067
1915——28#1,253
1914——30#1,039
1913——21#1,131
1912——11#1,578
1911——6#1,648
1910——5#1,736
1909——10#985
1908——5#1,508
1907——5#1,454
1904——6#1,142
1903——9#821
1902——5#1,232
1900——7#1,114
1899——8#829
1898——7#948
1895——6#1,033
1894——5#1,176
1893——7#876
1892——9#772
1887——7#795
1886——5#1,040
1885——5#1,021
1884——6#920
1883——6#847
1882——6#898

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).