Landry

Meaning: Land + mighty
Origin: Combines Germanic elements (from Germanic, via French)

Girl's name · #935 in the US (2025) · 2010s wave

57% girls · 43% boys — Landry is also given to boys: 229 in 2025, about 43% in recent years. Landry →

Popularity over time

Landry's best rank, #778, came in 2018; it has settled back to #935 today. Roughly 5,800 girls have been named Landry since 1984.

Across the states

In recent years, Landry ran about 8× its national rate in Louisiana.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 21 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Landrys

Landry Bender — American actress
Landry Allbright — American actress

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 39,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

Jeff Landry — American politician (born 1970)
Nelly Landry — Belgian-French tennis player
Carl Landry — American basketball player

What Landrys become

Among 52 notable people named Landry:

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variant Landrie (#2395), Landry would rank around #766 with about 350 births last year — the newborns split about 79/21 between Landry and Landrie.

Similar names: Landrie · Harleigh · Laniyah · Dalary · Emmalyn · Averie

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