Landa

Girls' name

Pet form of Mikuláš

Landa has been given to 639 babies in the U.S. since 1938. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1948, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Landa, 1994

1 in 464,000

Landa over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Landa: meaning, origin, and history

Pet form of Mikuláš

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Landa means

Landa is a pet form of Mikuláš.

Origin, language, and formation

Landa is used in Czech.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mikuláš.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Landa is pronounced [ˈlanda].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 639 girls were recorded with the name Landa between 1938 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1948; its best national rank was #1,881 in 1948.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Landa?

Landa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1994: 1 in 464,000; 8 of 3,715,972 births
Among girls only: 1 in 223,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1994: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 321,966 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Landa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1994 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 321,966 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Landa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Landas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Landa was born before 1961 — so the typical Landa is around 64 today.

Median birth year: 1961; About 64 years old
Biggest decade: 1950s; 27.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 29.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 511; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1950s — 27.4% of all recorded uses (175).

Is Landa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1948 (26)
Years since peak: 77; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,881; 1948

Spellings of Landa

Landa is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 19.0% against Landa's <0.01%.

Linda19.0%1,455,143
Anna11.9%914,859
Sandra11.4%875,531
Laura10.5%801,811
Amanda10.3%790,638
Wanda3.7%281,214
Dana2.5%193,555
Lena1.9%146,479

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Landa is used

Across 1910–2025, Landa was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 299,535 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Landa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Landa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,881; 1948
Peak year: 1948; 26 that year
First recorded: 1938
Last recorded: 1994
All-time count: 639
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Landa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Lanea Lanay Lanai Lanah Lanya Lania Laniah Lanyah Lanna Landri Landon Lanae Langley Lanaya Lanee Landyn Landen Lance Landree Landrey Kinda Lanasia Lanora Lanise

Sibling names for Landa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Karon Carlotta Mickey Peggie Delois Janey Ernestina Cheryle

For a brother

Felton Donn Fredric Williams Connie Rogers Gale Guadalupe

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