Lận

Name: Lận: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

Meaning: miserly

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

Lận is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common given name.

VNVietnam≈1 in 170(inferred from the name graph)
FRFrance≈1 in 340as Celine
DKDenmark1 in 344as Line

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lận itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
: #84 (measured from records)
: 7 (measured from records)
Record sources: 617 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 166 (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

LynnLatin

СелинCyrillic

세린Hangul

লিনBengali

ลิ๋นThai

ΣελίνGreek

ლინიGeorgian

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lynn in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more, Celine in FR France, NO Norway and Lan in VN Vietnam.

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

miserly

Cited for this meaning 1

kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Lận 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 Lận is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
VN Vietnam	#38	≈610,000 est.	≈1 in 166	listed	Lan	217
FR France	#30	≈200,000 est.	≈1 in 336	239K	Celine	402
US United States	#41	193,296as Lynn	1 in 1.7K	164K	Lynn	617
GB United Kingdom	#60	≈100,000 est.	≈1 in 677	77	Lynn	283
CA Canada	#44	≈56,000 est.	≈1 in 735	28	Lynn	283
DK Denmark	#363	17,062as Line	1 in 344	17K	Lynn	73
NO Norway	#593	10,043as Line	1 in 544	34K	Celine	65
IE Ireland	#33	≈8,500 est.	≈1 in 632	—	Lynn	109

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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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

Lận is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate given name26 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Benin, China
Also written Län, Lan, Lân, Lån, Lăn

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

Lin Chengb. 1431not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 199254
Lin Zichongb. 1511not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB=203536
Michael Linb. 1964TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese artist (born 1964)
Lin Xiaojunb. 1996KRnot in their usual nameChinese short track speed skater
Lin Xiangrunot in their usual nameChinese chancellor
Alfred LinUSnot in their usual nameAmerican businessman
Lin Shizhennot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 422976
Lin Chengnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 282880
Lin Kuannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 282881
Lin Guangnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 282882

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

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lận mean, and where does it come from?: miserly Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Lận a male or female name?: Lận 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 Lận have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 608 thousand people named Lận in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lan.
How common is the name Lận?: In the United States, the national register counted 193,296 people named Lynn in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
How common is Lận compared with other names?: In Vietnam, Lận is the 38th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.

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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%E1%BA%ADn

The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Lận” — the 38th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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