LanYi

Name: LanYi: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Meaning: habitational name for someone from a place called Ldny

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/lɑɲi/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated

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LanYi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.

HUHungary≈1 in 41Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
CZCzechia1 in 382K
DKDenmark1 in 838K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.

: Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
Record sources: 104 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Lányi

Locally spelled Lányi in HU Hungary.

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

habitational name for someone from a place called Ldny.

Cited for this meaning 1

Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world

LanYi 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 LanYi is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
HU Hungary	≈240 est.	≈1 in 41K	—	Lányi	42
US United States	225	1 in 1.5M	225	LanYi	104
NG Nigeria	≈85 est.	≈1 in 2.5M	—	LanYi	3
DE Germany	≈82 est.	≈1 in 972K	—	LanYi	35
GB United Kingdom	≈48 est.	≈1 in 1.4M	—	LanYi	28
CZ Czechia	28	1 in 382K	28	—	—
AT Austria	≈17 est.	≈1 in 519K	—	LanYi	9
IE Ireland	≈8 est.	≈1 in 666K	—	LanYi	1
DK Denmark	7	1 in 838K	7	—	—

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; MVČR — living population register 2017; 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

LanYi is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Spanish surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Peru, Argentina, United States, Brazil
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Lányi
Chinese surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Taiwan, United States, China
Also written Lan-Yi
French surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States
Also written Lányi
Slovak surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia
Languages: Slovak, Czech
Also written Lányi
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Lányi
Arabic surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Egypt, United States
Also written Lányi
Hindi surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Lányi
Danish surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Denmark
Also written Lányi

23 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

Karl Lanyib. 1868SKprisoner in Theresienstadt Ghetto, b. 1868-10-25
Richard Lányib. 1884ATAustrian Jewish publisher and art collector murdered in the Holocaust (1884-1942)
Zoltán Lányib. 1912Holocaust victim (born 1912)
José Paulo Lanyib. 1970BRBrazilian journalist and writer
Ariel Lanyib. 1997ILIsraeli pianist and composer

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).

How to address them

FormalDear Ms Lanyi,

InformalHi Lanyi,

Evidence

11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting LanYi
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	225	#83,541
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	209	#83,618
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	200	#97,359
DK Denmark	Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)	—	7	#49,413
CZ Czechia	MVČR — living population register 2017	—	2	#185,585
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)	—	—	—

Reference works 2

Dictionary of American Family Names
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name LanYi mean, and where does it come from?: habitational name for someone from a place called Ldny. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce LanYi?: It depends on the language: in Swahili /lɑɲi/; in Hungarian /lɒɲi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does LanYi have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 236 people named LanYi in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lányi.
How common is the name LanYi?: In the United States, the national register counted 225 people named LanYi in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lanyi

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, “LanYi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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