Given name & surname
Lansing
“filled with hope”
Lansing is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “filled with hope.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “filled with hope.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lansing through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 512
- 512 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1952
- 25 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 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 25 in 1952. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 383 as a first name in 2020; 3,271 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.
Lansing’s family of names
Lansing has a related form in Lanseng. Lansing has a related form in Lansyng.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Lansing
- Lansing Colton Holden Jr.American flying ace (1896-1938)
- Lansing StoutAmerican politician and lawyer (1828-1871)
- Lansing Hoskins Beachengineer in the United States Army Corps of Engineers1860–1945
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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