Lãnh

given name · Latin script

Meaning: to receive, to get

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Lãnh is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 313K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 537K
  • DKDenmark1 in 2M

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)

1,064 people, 2020

Sources
56 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 313K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lanh in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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)

to receive, to get

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lãnh 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.

Where Lãnh is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,0641 in 313K726Lanh56
SE Sweden191 in 537K19—3
PL Poland51 in 7.7M6——
NL Netherlands51 in 3.5M5Lanh7
DK Denmark31 in 2M3——

1,064 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lãnh is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lanh, Lành, Lạnh, Ląnh, Lảnh

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Lánh, Lảnh, Lanh, Lạnh, Lành

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium

    Also written Lanh, Lạnh, Lành

  • Spanish given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Chile, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lanh, Lành, Lảnh, Lạnh, Lánh

  • Danish given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States

    Languages: Danish, Swedish

    Also written Lanh, Lành, Lảnh, Lạnh

14 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000Leng Ke, b. 1499Leng Mei, b. 1669John Leng, b. 1828Leng Yu, b. 1882Leng Rong, b. 1953Virginia Leng, b. 1955Leng Xueyan, b. 1972Christof Leng, b. 1975
  • Leng Keb. 1499not in their usual namepolitician
  • Leng Meib. 1669CNnot in their usual namepainter (1669–1742)
  • John Lengb. 1828GBnot in their usual nameBritish politician
  • Leng Yub. 1882CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician
  • Leng Rongb. 1953CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician
  • Virginia Lengb. 1955GBnot in their usual nameequestrian
  • Leng Xueyanb. 1972CNnot in their usual nameChinese female hurdler
  • Christof Lengb. 1975DEnot in their usual nameGerman computer scientist and politician
  • Leng Qiannot in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 102238
  • Leng Zhaoyangnot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 93302

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lãnh under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lãnh mean, and where does it come from?
to receive, to get Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Lãnh a male or female name?
Lãnh is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Lãnh have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Lãnh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lanh.
Where is Lãnh most common?
Lãnh is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 313 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Lãnh?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,064 people named Lãnh in 2020, about 1 in 313 thousand residents.

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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, “Lãnh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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