diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/dygraph/nn.py b/python/paddle/fluid/dygraph/nn.py
index 03fe763aaef1a203597d27f3d000713eefb25f16..bea1f17e04937dc1670399a38b2249c1dcb2b84c 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/dygraph/nn.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/dygraph/nn.py
@@ -1478,6 +1478,9 @@ class LayerNorm(layers.Layer):
             return dygraph_utils._append_activation_in_dygraph(
                 pre_act, act=self._act)
 
+        check_variable_and_dtype(input, 'input', ['float32', 'float64'],
+                                 'LayerNorm')
+
         inputs = dict()
         inputs['X'] = [input]
         if self._scale:
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_layer_norm_op.py b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_layer_norm_op.py
index 18e83f9a56964b1372ad199bc765577bd4847243..bc475e19f4c6f51ad87916c77ff5e20e1343503b 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_layer_norm_op.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_layer_norm_op.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import paddle.fluid.core as core
 import paddle.fluid as fluid
 from functools import reduce
 from op_test import _set_use_system_allocator
+from paddle.fluid import Program, program_guard
 
 np.random.random(123)
 
@@ -213,5 +214,19 @@ class TestLayerNormAPI(unittest.TestCase):
             bias_attr="shift")
 
 
+class TestDygraphLayerNormAPIError(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_errors(self):
+        with program_guard(Program(), Program()):
+            layer_norm = fluid.LayerNorm([32, 32])
+            # the input of LayerNorm must be Variable.
+            x1 = np.random.random((3, 32, 32)).astype('float32')
+            self.assertRaises(TypeError, layer_norm, x1)
+
+            # the input dtype of LayerNorm must be float32 or float64
+            # float16 only can be set on GPU place
+            x2 = fluid.layers.data(name='x2', shape=[3, 32, 32], dtype="int32")
+            self.assertRaises(TypeError, layer_norm, x2)
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()