Landen
- Pronunciation
- [Lan-den]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Long Hill.
- Origin
- English
About the Name Landen
Landen is a modern American spelling variant of Landon (see separate entry on Landon for the Old English etymology — meaning "long hill" or "Lanna's hill," composed of an Anglo-Saxon personal name plus dun (hill, down)). The -den ending Landen is essentially a 21st-century American invention.
The two spellings (Landen and Landon) are tracked separately by SSA and represent the same underlying Old English place-name. The Landen spelling specifically appeals to parents seeking a more visually distinctive form. The name's American naming surge began through the 1990s and 2000s, riding the broader American taste for surname-style first names with the popular -den/-don ending alongside Aiden, Caden, and Hayden.
Landen's American climb is recent: the name climbed from outside the US top 1000 in 2000 to the US top 300 boys' rank by 2014 and the top 300 since. Notable contemporary bearers include American basketball player Landen Carmody; the contemporary fictional Landen of various contemporary novels; and various contemporary American social media influencers. The name's appeal sits in three contemporary American naming preferences: the surname-style sophistication, the popular two-syllable -den ending family (Landen, Aiden, Caden, Hayden), and the modern visual presence. Two firm syllables, soft consonants, and tonal versatility from rural-American to upwardly-mobile-American. The name reads as both classical-Anglo-Saxon and distinctly contemporary American. Common nicknames Lan (the dominant short form, casual and warm) and the rare Lannie each carry distinct registers; the alternate spellings Landon (the more popular form), Landen, and Landyn have their own SSA tracking. International variants are minimal since the name's first-name use is essentially American.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Landen
US Popularity History (2000–2024)
Annual US births named Landen by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2008 with 1,976 boys named Landen (boy rank #199 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2024, ranked #813 for boys (308 US births). That's 614 places below its 2008 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Landen Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Landen the strongest states are Maine, Hawaii, Mississippi.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maine | #206 | 21 |
| 2 | Hawaii | #226 | 20 |
| 3 | Mississippi | #300 | 90 |
| 4 | Nebraska | #328 | 26 |
| 5 | Alabama | #334 | 138 |
| 6 | West Virginia | #345 | 33 |
| 7 | Idaho | #361 | 20 |
| 8 | Ohio | #401 | 290 |
| 9 | South Carolina | #413 | 112 |
| 10 | Maryland | #450 | 59 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | #799 | 252 |
| 2 | Texas | #757 | 313 |
| 3 | Arizona | #726 | 48 |
| 4 | New York | #718 | 211 |
| 5 | New Jersey | #662 | 52 |
| 6 | Florida | #659 | 241 |
| 7 | Utah | #654 | 18 |
| 8 | Virginia | #651 | 110 |
| 9 | Oklahoma | #641 | 31 |
| 10 | Colorado | #603 | 77 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Landen in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Compare Landen to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Landen against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).