Lendon
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Lendon by the numbers
Lendon was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 15 babies in 1939, making it a 1930s name.
What we can tell you about Lendon
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Lendon. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Landonlong hill; open grassy hill6,390 in the US (2017)
- Lennonsmall cloak or garment; surname used as given name1,084 in the US (2017)
- Lyndonlinden tree hill; from a place name183 in the US (2017)
- Lindonlinden tree hill; from Old English lind and dun9 in the US (2017)
- London2,230 in the US (2017)
- Lundon5 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Lendon
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