Landen
Landen was given to 212 boys in 2025, #1,045 among boys’ names; 27,065 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 26,700 Americans named Landen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 20.
Landen dropped 230 places in 2025, the #4 drop among the boys’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Landen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Landen?
#1,045 among boys’ names, 2025
Landen fell from #342 in 2015 to #1,045 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.53 to 0.12 per 1,000.
1,989 babies in 2008, the peak
Landen peaked in 2008, when 1,989 babies were given it (1,976 boys, #199 among boys’ names). The 219 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 212 | #1,045 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 308 | #815 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 303 | #810 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 345 | #747 | 0.20 |
| 2021 | 444 | #623 | 0.25 |
| 2020 | 470 | #590 | 0.27 |
| 2019 | 599 | #486 | 0.33 |
| 2018 | 618 | #471 | 0.34 |
| 2017 | 753 | #414 | 0.41 |
| 2016 | 820 | #390 | 0.43 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,009 | #342 | 0.53 |
| 2014 | 1,204 | #294 | 0.63 |
| 2013 | 1,295 | #273 | 0.68 |
| 2012 | 1,471 | #246 | 0.78 |
| 2011 | 1,594 | #225 | 0.84 |
| 2010 | 1,711 | #206 | 0.89 |
| 2009 | 1,834 | #207 | 0.92 |
| 2008 | 1,976 | #199 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 1,953 | #203 | 0.94 |
| 2006 | 1,916 | #203 | 0.93 |
| 2005 | 1,537 | #225 | 0.77 |
| 2004 | 1,131 | #281 | 0.57 |
| 2003 | 980 | #304 | 0.50 |
| 2002 | 497 | #476 | 0.26 |
| 2001 | 268 | #678 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 245 | #713 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 217 | #743 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 175 | #838 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 143 | #942 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 124 | #1,006 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 97 | #1,173 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 63 | #1,503 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 77 | #1,296 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 63 | #1,457 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 45 | #1,776 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 31 | #2,287 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 33 | #2,125 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 33 | #1,969 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,781 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 27 | #2,136 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,152 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,404 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 23 | #2,246 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,917 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,733 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,528 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,435 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,384 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,899 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,946 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,650 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,740 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,190 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,195 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Landen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Landen has been given almost only to boys: 246 girls in 54 years of records.
Girls and boys named Landen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Landen, and how old are they?
26,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 27,065 Americans ever recorded as Landen. The median Landen alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 21,743 people named Landen (206 women and girls, 21,537 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 24,819 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 69 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 689 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 17,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,410 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Landen born?
The states with the most babies named Landen are California, Texas and Michigan, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 16 | #1,222 | 0.4× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,452 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 13 | #625 | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 12 | #732 | 2.0× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,168 | 0.8× |
| New York | 11 | #1,089 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #819 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 10 | #664 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #909 | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 8 | #585 | 1.3× |
Where Landen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Landen is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1969 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Landen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 233,618 babies since 1880, Landen is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 219 of their 3,358 babies (6.5%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Landen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Landen and names like it
- Compare Landen and LandonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLanden peaked in 2008.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Landen since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Landen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Landen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.