The Lalande surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 515 people carried this name — #42,163 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 588,200 people counted. That is up 1% from 510 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Lalande surname
A habitational surname, Lalande, from landforms.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Lalande» (French), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 3,061 people named Lalande.
36 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 87 départements, most often Gironde.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
20 people named Lalande live in Switzerland.
They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Lalande,
with a public archive behind them.
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Julien de Lallande Poydras 1746–1824 · poet -
Julien de Lallande Poydras 1746–1824 · poet
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Julien Pierre Anne Lalande 1787–1844 · military personnel -
François-Gilles Lalande de Calan 1730–1790 · military officer
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François-Gilles Lalande de Calan 1731–1790 · military officer
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Luc-François Lalande 1732–1805 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lalande.
- Lajaunie 354 · U.S. census
- Lajeunesse 1,367 · U.S. census
- Lajoie 3,145 · U.S. census
- Lake 32,104 · U.S. census
- Lakomy 237 · U.S. census
- Lala 1,390 · U.S. census
- Lalanne 658 · U.S. census
- Lale 162 · U.S. census
- Laliberte 3,120 · U.S. census
- Lalin 145 · U.S. census
- Lalla 732 · U.S. census
- Lallemand 289 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Lalande is.
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