Landon

Landon is a surname dressed in first-name clothes, originally from an Old English place name meaning "long hill." It arrived in American usage slowly, then surged in the 1990s and 2000s, following the broader wave of surname-style boy names like Mason, Jackson, and Brayden. It peaked inside the U.S. top 40 around 2011 and has settled comfortably into the low 100s since. The name has a grounded, pastoral feel, all rolling topography and country roads, but it handles a boardroom just as well. Landon suggests a child with both feet on the ground and a horizon worth walking toward.