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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Vietnamese: Flower
  2. Polynesian: To float
  3. Dutch: Bringer of peace; hope

First name variations: Lanna, Lanny, Lani, Lanna, Anna, Lana, Liannaka

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Chinese: from a place named Lan-tian (meaning ‘blue field’) in Guangdong province.
  2. Polish (Łan): perhaps from the vocabulary word łan ‘plowland’, ‘soil’.
  3. Polish (Łań): alternatively, perhaps a nickname from a derivative of łania ‘hind’, ‘doe’.