Loan
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Loan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 61st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Modern Breton/French name, often taken as a form of Loann/Loïc; origin uncertain.
- VNVietnam1 in 386◐
- USUnited States1 in 42K
- FRFrance1 in 4.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈23K ●
- Sources
- 170 ●
- 1 in 4.8K ◐
across 11 countries
113K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
Modern Breton/French name, often taken as a form of Loann/Loïc; origin uncertain.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #61 | 220,543 | 99K rec. | — | — | Loan | 170 |
| FR France | — | 14,275 | 0 rec. | 1 in 4.8K | 14K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 7,865 | 11K rec. | 1 in 42K | 7.9K | Loan | 119 |
| BR Brazil | — | 643 | — | 1 in 329K | 643 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 585 | 659 rec. | — | — | Loan | 19 |
| CA Canada | — | 542 | 580 rec. | — | 26 | Loan | 25 |
| SE Sweden | — | 178 | 327 rec. | 1 in 57K | 178 | Loan | 9 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 122 | 166 rec. | — | — | Loan | 7 |
| TW Taiwan | — | 83 | 24 rec. | — | — | Loan | 18 |
| ES Spain | — | 73△ | 26 rec. | 1 in 685K | 73 | — | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | 71 | 114 rec. | — | — | Loan | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 61 | 76 rec. | — | 13 | Loan | 8 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese231K54%
- French75K18%
- English57K13%
- Spanish22K5%
- 15K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 231,008 | 54% |
| French | 75,415 | 18% |
| English | 57,016 | 13% |
| Spanish | 21,907 | 5% |
| 14,958 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Loan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, hen-phoenix
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Origine celtique, « petite caverne »; aussi vu comme masculin de Loanne (de Louise + Anne) ou diminutif d’Elouan.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Vietnamese, Phoenix
as a nameVietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)
In English, variant of Lane.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1976 | 14 |
| 1977 | 15 |
| 1978 | 13 |
| 1979 | 14 |
| 1980 | 32 |
| 1981 | 27 |
| 1982 | 41 |
| 1983 | 26 |
| 1984 | 39 |
| 1985 | 29 |
| 1986 | 22 |
| 1987 | 22 |
| 1988 | 16 |
| 1989 | 14 |
| 1990 | 12 |
| 1991 | 20 |
| 1992 | 10 |
| 1993 | 10 |
| 1994 | 16 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 10 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 13 |
| 2025 | 14 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 27 years between 1976–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Zhang Luanb. 1446not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 130717
- Hoàng Thị Loanb. 1868VNmother of Ho Chi Minh
- Loan Chaub. 1973VNVietnamese-American singer
- Loan Laureb. 1978FRFrench pornographic actress
- Loan Chabanolb. 1982FRFrench model
- Bảo Thyb. 1988VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese singer
- Kelly Marie Tranb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1989)
- Hoàng Thị Loanb. 1995VNVietnamese association football player
- Loan Bozzolob. 1999FRFrench snowboarder
- Mai Thuc LoanVNEmperor of Vietnam
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 59 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 14K | #99 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.9K | #2,863 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2022 | 2K | #3,088 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 695 | #31,492 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 693 | #33,036 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 656 | #36,675 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 643 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 633 | #227 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 622 | #11,238 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 502 | #14,273 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 208 | #4,655 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 178 | #5,665 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 315 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Loan?
- We estimate roughly 23 thousand people bear Loan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Loan have the most bearers?
- Loan is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled loan.
- How common is Loan compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Loan is the 61st most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Loan a male or female name?
- Loan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Loan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Modern Breton/French name, often taken as a form of Loann/Loïc; origin uncertain.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Loan” — the 61st most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.