girls:
261 births since 1942
#5455 (5th percentile)
boys:
2.3k births since 1907
#2647 (42nd percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1907
#5311 (31st percentile)
The name Landis is the #5,311 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,533 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 31.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,647 (42.3% percentile) for all time with 2,272 births since 1907. For girls, it ranks #5,455 (4.5% percentile) for all time with 261 births since 1942.
Landis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (1907 for boys and 1942 for girls). Birth data for Landis is available in 114 out of the 117 years between 1907 and 2023 (114 years for boys and 36 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Landis has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Landis were boys.
For boys, Landis reached its peak popularity in 1945, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #513) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 38 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Despite a low point around 2015, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Landis ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 28.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Landis reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #897) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Landis".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Landis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.5% confident that Landis is pronounced as LAN-dihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAN-duhs, at 9.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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