Landon, an English surname-turned-given-name, was originally a place name meaning "long hill" in Old English. It started gaining popularity in the United States in the mid-to-late 1900s and has now been a top-100 boy's name every year since 2003, according to the Social Security Administration. Landon is also the name reality TV star Megan McKenna gave her son Landon Henry, born in 2024.
