Li-An

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Li-An is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As a Norwegian surname, from several farmsteads with the name Li, from Old Norse hlíð (“hillside”). * As a Chinese surname, from 連／连, 连, and 廉 (lián).

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 6.4K
  • NLNetherlands≈1 in 8.1K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈130,000 people, est.

Sources
285 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lian in US United States, MY Malaysia, CN China and 2 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)

* As a Norwegian surname, from several farmsteads with the name Li, from Old Norse hlíð (“hillside”). * As a Chinese surname, from 連／连, 连, and 廉 (lián).

Sources 5

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Nordic Names
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Li-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.

Where Li-An is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈130,000 est.≈1 in 11K—Lian116
MY Malaysia#361≈10,000 est.≈1 in 3.1K—Lian81
EC Ecuador—6,2091 in 2.7K6.2K—14
US United States—5,9411 in 56K8.2KLian285
BR Brazil—5,1681 in 41K5.2K—1
NL Netherlands#991≈2,100 est.≈1 in 8.1K836Lian52
SG Singapore#489≈980 est.≈1 in 6.4K—Lian102
SI Slovenia—4111 in 5.1K441—5

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Li-An is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Li'An, Lian, Lián, Lïan, Līan

  • Spanish given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lian, Lían, Lián, Lìan, Liàn

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Malaysia

    Also written Lian, Lïan

  • Malay given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, United States

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Lian, 'Lian

7 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Li-An mean, and where does it come from?
* As a Norwegian surname, from several farmsteads with the name Li, from Old Norse hlíð (“hillside”). * As a Chinese surname, from 連／连, 连, and 廉 (lián). Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
Is Li-An a male or female name?
Li-An 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 Li-An have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 131 thousand people named Li-An in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lian.
Where is Li-An most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Li-An is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Li-An?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 6,209 people named Li-An in 2024, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
How common is Li-An compared with other names?
In Malaysia, Li-An is the 361st most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.

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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, “Li-An” — the 361st most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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