Landon

Landon is the 4,044th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,527 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 35,100.

By the numbers

People: 8,527
Rank: 4,044th
How common: 1 in 35,100
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Place names in England, from Old English lang (“long”) + dūn (“hill”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.5%
Black, not Hispanic 5.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Landon

Michael Landon (1936–1991)American actor and filmmaker
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838)British poet and novelist
Alf Landon (1887–1987)American politician
Richmond Landon (1898–1971)athletics competitor
Christopher Landon (born 1975)American filmmaker
Jennifer Landon (born 1983)American actress
Margaret Landon (1903–1993)American writer, missionary
Charles Paul Landon (1760–1826)French painter, engraver and art critic

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

Surnames like Landon

Also a first name

Landon has been given to 187,785 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 2010. 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.