The Lando surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,267 people carried this name — #20,829 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 232,600 people counted. That is up 39% from 909 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Lando surname
A surname transferred from the given name.
Reduced from any names of Germanic origin containing the element *land (“land, territory”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Lando» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 381 people named Lando live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 185 people named Lando.
47 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 24 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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
43 people named Lando live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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.
In the Nordic population registers
21 people named Lando is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lando.
- Landez 169 · U.S. census
- Landfried 364 · U.S. census
- Landgraf 1,659 · U.S. census
- Landi 2,038 · U.S. census
- Landini 443 · U.S. census
- Landmann 248 · U.S. census
- Landon 9,211 · U.S. census
- Landrau 336 · U.S. census
- Landre 219 · U.S. census
- Landron 492 · U.S. census
- Landry 39,391 · U.S. census
- Landucci 343 · U.S. census
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