Baby name

Lan

Girl Boy

71% girls / 29% boys

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Short-lived name

1982 was its best year: 47 births, or 1 baby in 74,630. Since then, the name has fallen 99%, to about 0 births a year. No births recorded in 2025: the name is no longer given, or too rarely to be published. 44% of all babies named Lan since 1880 were born in the 1980s.

769births since 1880

1980sgeneration

No. 2150rank at its peak, in 1982

One letter apart

Lana 57,434
Jan 54,531
Nan 10,274
Lani 7,373
Lyn 7,220
Lane 4,615

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Girls and boys, decade by decade

Decade	Girls	Boys
1940s	0%	100%
1950s	0%	100%
1960s	0%	100%
1970s	72%	28%
1980s	76%	24%
1990s	83%	17%
2000s	75%	25%
2010s	72%	28%
2020s	0%	100%