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The first name 
Landry

Landry is a first name for all genders.

Landry – well-known but still special!

Few children have been named Landry in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 15 out of 100,000 children are currently called Landry. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Landry at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Landry is number *** on the list of most common first names.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Landry

What does the name 
Landry mean?

The French name Landry is a derivation of the Germanic Landric, which means ‘ruler of the land’ or ‘king of the land’.

Landry has been ... given in the U.S. since about 2010, as both a boy's and a girl's name. In France, it is a boys-only name.

Landry has 6 letters 
and begins with an L

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is quite common as an initial letter for first names. To be precise, 5.5% of all given names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K.

With six letters, the name Landry is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 5.5% of all first names start with an L, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average.

Other names with 
L, a, n, d, r and y

If you take all the letters in the name Landry – L, a, n, d, r and y – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Darlyn or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Landry

If your name is Landry and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Landry

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Landry, you can simply say:

Lion

Apple

Nut

Dinosaur

Rocket

Yoyo

This is how the name Landry is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Landry in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Landry

Landry

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Landry

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Landry is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

L
A
N
D
R
Y

Have you ever waved the name Landry

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

L
A
N
D
R
Y

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Landry sounds like this: