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Sloan

Girl's name · #840 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave

84% girls · 16% boys — Sloan is also given to boys: 62 in 2025, about 16% in recent years. Sloan →

Popularity over time

Sloan is near its high-water mark: it reached #572 in 2021 and still ranked #840 in 2025. About 8,400 girls have carried it since 1953.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 36 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#987 in Canada (2024).

Famous Sloans

• Sloan MacKenzie — Canadian canoeist (born 2002)
• Sloan Wainwright — American musician
• Sloan Siegrist — Guamanian athlete
• Sloan Simpson — American fashion consultant
• Sloan Peterson — Australian singer/songwriter

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 43,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

• Alfred P. Sloan — American businessman (1875–1966)
• Jerry Sloan — American basketball player and coach (1942–2020)
• John Sloan — American painter (1871–1951)

In stories & tradition

• Sloan Riley^it — Grey's Anatomy (TV series)
• Sloan Dietz — The Mentalist (TV series)

What Sloans become

Among 25 notable people named Sloan:

Entertainers appear 2.06× more often than among typical names — e.g. Sloan Wainwright, American musician.

Spellings & nicknames

Sloan is the less common spelling of Sloane — about 13% of babies given the name are written this way; Sloane itself ranked #141 in 2025.

Similar names: Sloane · Berkley · Rayne · Dylan · Karsyn · Ellison

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