Lansdowne

English

Etymology

Variant of Lansdown.

Proper noun

Lansdowne (countable and uncountable, plural Lansdownes)

1. A surname.
2. A city or town in Uttarakhand, India
3. A village in New South Wales, Australia
4. A town in Ontario, Canada
5. A community of Yukon, Canada
6. A census-designated place in Maryland
7. A borough of Pennsylvania
8. A census-designated place in Virginia
9. An inner suburb of Bournemouth in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SZ0991).

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lansdowne is the 34390^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 659 individuals. Lansdowne is most common among White (71.62%) and Black/African American (20.79%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Lansdowne”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 392.