Lan

Lan is the 7,828th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,062 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 73,600.

By the numbers

People: 4,062
Rank: 7,828th
How common: 1 in 73,600
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 85.7%
White, not Hispanic 8.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Lan

Trương Mỹ Lan (born 1956)Vietnamese businesswoman
Yu Lan (1921–2020)Chinese actress
Lu Lan (born 1987)Chinese badminton player
Lan Ying (1585–1666)Chinese artist
Quách Thị Lan (born 1995)Vietnamese athlete
Arnaud Le Lan (born 1978)French footballer
Jiang Lan (born 1989)Chinese sprinter
Lan Yu (1330–1393)Chinese general

People named Lan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lan

Also a first name

Lan has been given to 1,087 American babies as a first name since 1948, peaking in 1982. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.