Given name & surname
loan
loan is a feminine given name from Chinese. It is used in Vietnamese.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
loan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 458
- 32 boys · 426 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 41 babies
- 2025
- 14
- #6,315 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 14 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,315 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 8,034 as a first name in 2020; 656 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
loan’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named loan
- Loan BozzoloFrench snowboarderborn 1999
- Loan ChabanolFrench modelborn 1982
- Loan HisFrench artistic gymnastborn 1999
- Hoàng Thị LoanVietnamese association football playerborn 1995
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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Giang
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Khoa
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“one who is unhindered”
98% boys · 2% girls
Chun
“born during spring” · “born during the spring”
82% boys · 18% girls