Lan is a currently uncommon surname, found in Yutai, Pingdu, and Dongping in Shandong, Sheng County in Zhejiang, and Fengshun in Guangdong. As a Han Chinese surname, it is included in Zhongguo Xingshi Daquan and Xingshi Cidian.
Lan is recorded as a Yao surname, with the note that it may be the Lan surname.
Among the She people, the Lan surname is distinct from the surname written with the grass radical and uses the bamboo radical. According to tradition, the second son of the Dog-Head King would not stop crying after birth; when the king waved a bamboo basket before him, the child stopped crying, so the surname Lan was established.
Lan surname distribution is also recorded in Du'an and Bobai in Guangxi, Xinfan in Sichuan, Taiwan, and Jieyang in Guangdong.
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