first name
LAN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 14,674 people named Lan, 95.3% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 2.4% as White and 1.1% as two or more races. 88.6% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Lan peaked in 1981, when 62 babies got the name.
At least 1,087 babies have been given the name since 1948. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Lan by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #3,717. The largest share of babies named Lan, 53.8%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Either side of Lan
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lan, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Lan ranks #7,828 of 156,621, with 4,062 people. See Lan as a last name
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