Given name & surname
Landers
“one who owns land”
Landers is a variant of Lander. One English interpretation is “one who owns land.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Landers is a variant of Lander. One English interpretation is “one who owns land.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Landers is a variant of Lander. An origin associated with Lander is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1921. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Landers through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 82
- 82 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 165 as a first name in 2020; 17,381 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Landers’s family of names
Landers has a related form in Lander.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Landers
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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