All around the world, หน่าน (Nan 
, หน่าน) is a common gender-neutral given name. The given name หน่าน is characteristic of Myanmar, where it is quite a rare largely girly, but infrequently male name, Saudi Arabia, where it is quite a rare epicene name, and Mauritius. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in India, the United States, and Myanmar. Likewise, หน่าน is the last name as well as the forename.
หน่าน is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Anne "Nan” Blythe , character in Rainbow Valley; Nan , the theatrical character in the play "Three days of rain"; Nan , the operatic character in the opera New Year by Michael Tippett; Donny and Jo Ann's foster mother; Nan Jocelyn , the musical character in the musical The New Aladdin and Nan Hatton , the musical character in the musical Oh, My Dear!, among other works.