Lan — unisex name

What the Data Says About Lan

The Social Security Administration has registered 769 babies named Lan between 1972 and 2019, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lan currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 47 babies received it in a single year. Lan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 310 additional births since 1948.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lan performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 336 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Lan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 172 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Kansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Lan in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 769 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.