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    The surname Lansdown

    An English place surname, carried by 673 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L523

    Lansdown: #33,810 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Lansdown #33,810, 673 people Lansdown: #33,810 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Lansdown #33,810, 673 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lansdown is more common than 79.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname, probably from Old English langet (“long strip of ground”) + dūn (“hill”).

    Lansdown is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 673 people named Lansdown in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 458,760 Americans. That is up 9.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 613.

    #33,810
    rank among US surnames
    673
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.8%
    change since 2000 (was #34,856)

    Who is named Lansdown

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    81% of people named Lansdown identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 14%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Lansdowne

    Surnames that sound like Lansdown

    Lansdown has the Soundex code L523, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L523.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Lansdown come from?
    Habitational surname, probably from Old English langet (“long strip of ground”) + dūn (“hill”).
    How common is the surname Lansdown?
    673 people in the United States had the surname Lansdown in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 458,760 Americans. It ranked 33,810th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lansdown?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Lansdown identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Lansdown?
    Lansdown is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Lansdown getting more or less common?
    More common. 613 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 673 in 2010, up 9.8%.
    What are other spellings of Lansdown?
    Lansdowne.