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Langdon

Boys' name

Surname transferred into given-name use

Langdon has been given to 1,166 babies in the U.S. since 1911. 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 2005, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Langdon, 2024

1 in 478,000

Langdon over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Langdon: meaning, origin, and history

Surname transferred into given-name use

surname transfer

What Langdon means

Langdon is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Langdon is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈlæŋ.dən/ for Langdon.

The naming story behind Langdon

Langdon is a given name adopted from surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,156 boys were recorded with the name Langdon between 1911 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2005; its best national rank was #1,884 in 1911.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Langdon between 1999 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1999; its best national rank was #15,752 in 1999.

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.

How common is Langdon?

Langdon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Langdon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Langdon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Langdons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Langdon was born before 1990 — so the typical Langdon is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
19.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
837
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2000s — 19.7% of all recorded uses (228).

Is Langdon 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2005 (33)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,884
1911

Spellings of Langdon

Langdon is not the most common spelling — Landon is, with 70.3% against Langdon's 0.44%.

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 Langdon is used

Across 1910–2025, Langdon was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 988,020 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Langdon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Langdon around the world

Where Langdon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1957–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Langdon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,884
1911
Peak year
2005
33 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,156
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,752
1999
Peak year
1999
5 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Langdon

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

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Sibling names for Langdon

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

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