Lanh

given name · Latin script

Meaning: fast, quick

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

/lan˧˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Lanh 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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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

fast, quick

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lanh 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 Lanh 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)

Lanh is also recorded as 7 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 Lành, Lạnh, Lãnh, Ląnh, Lảnh

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Lánh, Laṅḥ, Lành

  • Persian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Lãnh, Lạñh, Lành

  • Spanish given name13 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lành, Lảnh, Lạnh, Lánh, Lặnh

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium

    Also written Lạnh, Lành, Lãnh

  • Indonesian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Lạnh, Lành, Lánh

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Lãnh, Lạnh

30 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Lanh is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In lnj, alternative form of lawunh

    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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Lanh
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20266—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—6#182,183
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#356,947
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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 Lanh mean, and where does it come from?
fast, quick Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Lanh?
A machine transcription gives /lan˧˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
Is Lanh a male or female name?
Lanh 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 Lanh have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Lanh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lanh.
Where is Lanh most common?
Lanh is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 313 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Lanh?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,064 people named Lanh 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, “Lanh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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