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-an is a suffix for terms that describe system members based on certain characteristics, inspired by words like enban (a nonbinary person) and pluran (a plural person).[1]
While the original coining post appears to have been deleted and is not archived, the coin has been attributed to Tumblr user greys-dawn. A coining year is also not known, but the Pluralpedia page was created in 2021, so it can be assumed that the term was coined before then.[1]