Lander

Lander is the 6,808th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,762 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 62,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,762
Rank: 6,808th
How common: 1 in 62,800
Per 100,000: 1.6

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lander described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.3%
Black, not Hispanic 7.4%
Hispanic or Latino 6.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Lander

Eric Lander (born 1957)director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to the President
Richard Lemon Lander (1804–1834)Cornish explorer
John Lander (1907–1941)British rower
Anton Lander (born 1991)Swedish ice hockey player
David Lander (1947–2020)American actor
Sebastian Lander (born 1991)Danish road bicycle racer

People named Lander with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lander

Also a first name

Lander has been given to 1,162 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.