Lan (藍)
A Taiwanese surname.
藍 Lan
- Zhuyin
- ㄌㄢˊ
- Pinyin
- lán
- Wade-Giles
- Lan
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Nâ Nâ is the colloquial (白讀) reading, while lâm is the character's literary (文讀) reading.
- Hakka (Sixian)
- lam¹¹
- Rank in Taiwan
- 67th most common surname, roughly 0.18% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
'Blue'; it also denotes the indigo plants used to make blue dye.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to Lantian (藍田) in present-day Shaanxi, whose name was taken by the descendants of its lord. It is also one of the principal surnames of the She (畲) people of southeastern China. Hall name (堂號): 汝南堂.
Saying it 我姓藍 — wǒ xìng lán (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄌㄢˊ), "my family name is 藍"
Sources: rank and share, 內政部 全國姓名統計分析 (Ministry of the Interior, National Name Statistics), data as of 2023-06-30. Taiwanese Hokkien readings, 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi), 百家姓 appendix. Hakka, 教育部臺灣客語辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka), 百家姓表, Sixian (四縣腔).