Lanê
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lanê is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lane, lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”).
- USUnited States1 in 2.5K(measured from records)
- GDGrenada1 in 57K
- NONorway1 in 62K
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)
- Record sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
134,227 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lane in US United States, ES Spain, CV Cape Verde.
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 Englishlane(measured from records)
- Old Englishlane“a lane“a lane, alley, avenue”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*lanu(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*lanō“lane“lane, passageway”(measured from records)
From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lane, lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”). Cognate with Scots lone (“cattle-track, by-road”), West Frisian leane, loane (“a walkway, avenue”), Dutch laan (“alley, avenue”), German Low German Lane, Laan (“lane”), Swedish lån (“covered walkway encircling a house”), Icelandic lön (“a row of houses”).
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lanê 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 134,227 | 1 in 2.5K | 134K | Lane | 129 |
| ES Spain | — | 265 | 1 in 189K | 265 | Lane | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 106 | 1 in 96K | 106 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 88 | 1 in 62K | 88 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 84 | 1 in 66K | 84 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | — | 2 | 1 in 57K | 2 | — | — |
| CV Cape Verde | #274 | — | — | — | Lane | 5 |
134,227 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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 Lanê mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lane, lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 4 other sources.
- Is Lanê a male or female name?
- Lanê 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 Lanê have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 134 thousand people named Lanê, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lane.
- Where is Lanê most common?
- Lanê is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lanê?
- In the United States, the national register counted 134,227 people named Lanê in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Lanê compared with other names?
- In Cape Verde, Lanê is the 274th most common surname of 2,258 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lan%C3%AAThe 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, “Lanê” — the 274th most common surname in Cape Verde. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.