Lân
given name · Latin script
Meaning: phosphorus
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lân is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 20K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 23K
- SISlovenia1 in 766
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- 1 in 766 (inferred from the name graph)
14,674 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Län in SE Sweden and Lan in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
phosphorus
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lân counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
14,674 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lân is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Han-Viet name element; from the naming poem for Thiệu Hóa quận vương, Gia Long’s 9th son.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Welsh, soft mutation of glân
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Western Frisian, land
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Murong Linb. 350not in their usual nameChinese general and prince
- Ma Linb. 1180CNnot in their usual nameChinese artist (1180-1256)
- Liu Linb. 1475not in their usual namepolitician
- Tian Linb. 1628not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 73222
- Guo Linb. 1767not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB=54705
- Ngô Mạnh Lânb. 1934VNVietnamese painter
- Peter Kee Lin Ngb. 1960SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean freshwater field biologist
- Wu Linnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 327296
- Zhao Linnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 17694
- Chen Linnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 204316
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lân mean, and where does it come from?
- phosphorus Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Lân a male or female name?
- Lân is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lân have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Lân, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lan.
- Where is Lân most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lân is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 766 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lân?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,674 people named Lân in 2020, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A2nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lân”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.