# Langdon (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/langdon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 8,794 |
| US rank (2010) | 4,041 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 35,109 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.8% (8,723 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Old English lang + dun (“hill”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Langdon in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Langdon in the United States.

## People named Langdon

- Harry Langdon, American actor and comedian (1884–1944)
- John Langdon, American politician and Founding Father (1741-1819)
- Trajan Langdon, American basketball player (born 1976)
- Lillian Langdon, American actress (1860–1943)
- Stephen Herbert Langdon, American Assyriologist (1876-1937)

## Similar surnames

Langton, Langston, Lansdown, Lemaster, Lemasters, Lumsden, Longstreet, Linscott, Lowenstein, Longstreth, Longtin, Lonsdale.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.