La-An
surname · Latin script
La-An is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 3,094 people, counted by CBG Familienamenbank in 2007. Recorded meaning: From Middle Dutch laen, lane, from Old Dutch *lana, from Proto-Germanic *lanō. More at lane.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 3.6Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 5.6K
- FIFinland1 in 62K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
3,094 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Laan in NL Netherlands, DE Germany, EE Estonia and 3 more.
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)- Middle Dutchlaen(measured from records)
- Old Dutch*lana(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*lanō(measured from records)
From Middle Dutch laen, lane, from Old Dutch *lana, from Proto-Germanic *lanō. More at lane.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where the surname La-An is found
(measured from records)La-An 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #68 | 3,094 | 1 in 5.6K | 3.1K | Laan | 120 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Laan | 11 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 668K | — | Laan | 25 |
| EE Estonia | #241 | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | listed | Laan | 33 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 249K | — | Laan | 59 |
| FI Finland | — | 90 | 1 in 62K | 90 | Laan | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 42 | 1 in 130K | 42 | — | 5 |
3,094 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name La-An mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle Dutch laen, lane, from Old Dutch *lana, from Proto-Germanic *lanō. More at lane. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname La-An?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named La-An, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laan. After it come South Africa, Indonesia, Estonia and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name La-An?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 3,094 people named La-An in 2007, about 1 in 5.6 thousand residents.
- How common is La-An compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, La-An is the 68th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about La-An?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/la-anThe 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, “La-An” — ranked 347th in the Netherlands (CBG Familienamenbank, 2007). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.