Landry
LAN-dree
French/Germanic
Boy
Meaning-based name
- Meaning
- Ruler of the land; Powerful ruler
- Origin
- French/Germanic
- Is it in the Bible?
- No — the name Landry does not appear in the King James Bible. Christian families use it for its meaning, "Ruler of the land; Powerful ruler", and for the biblical themes that meaning touches, not because anyone in Scripture is called Landry.
- First appears in
- Does not appear in the King James text
- Peak US usage
- No recorded United States usage in the 1880–2008 records
- Spiritual meaning
- Landry stewards God's earth — fruitful, multiplying, replenishing, the ruler who knows the land belongs to the LORD and the fullness thereof.
- Verses on this meaning
- Psalm 24:1
"The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein."
- Genesis 1:28
"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it."
- Psalm 24:1