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.