Logan
Logan is given to both girls and boys: 775 girls and 5,576 boys were given it in 2025 (#402 among girls’ names and #53 among boys’, #64 among all names counting both); 419,837 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 410,000 Americans named Logan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Logan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Logan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Logan is “a male given name transferred from the surname. Used since at least the 19th century, and popular in the 2000s.” Its etymology gives the sense “little hollow” (lag).
Also “a female given name transferred from the surname, of 1990s and later usage; much less common than the male name.”
From Scottish Gaelic lag (“little hollow”).
/ˈloʊɡən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Logan?
#53 among boys’ names, 2025
Logan fell from #14 in 2015 to #53 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 3.3 per 1,000.
16,039 babies in 2007, the peak
Logan peaked in 2007, when 16,039 babies were given it (15,331 boys, #17 among boys’ names). The 6,351 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 40% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,576 | #53 | 3.3 |
| 2024 | 6,297 | #45 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6,706 | #39 | 3.9 |
| 2022 | 7,614 | #33 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 8,836 | #21 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 9,163 | #16 | 5.3 |
| 2019 | 10,571 | #16 | 5.9 |
| 2018 | 12,447 | #10 | 6.9 |
| 2017 | 14,061 | #5 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 11,278 | #18 | 5.9 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12,939 | #14 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 13,669 | #13 | 7.1 |
| 2013 | 12,366 | #18 | 6.5 |
| 2012 | 12,488 | #22 | 6.6 |
| 2011 | 12,999 | #21 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 14,032 | #17 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 14,467 | #17 | 7.3 |
| 2008 | 13,861 | #19 | 6.8 |
| 2007 | 15,331 | #17 | 7.4 |
| 2006 | 15,151 | #20 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 13,475 | #26 | 6.7 |
| 2004 | 13,140 | #27 | 6.6 |
| 2003 | 13,187 | #28 | 6.7 |
| 2002 | 12,974 | #29 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 12,710 | #29 | 6.5 |
| 2000 | 9,737 | #40 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 9,136 | #42 | 4.8 |
| 1998 | 8,640 | #44 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 8,620 | #42 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 8,374 | #42 | 4.4 |
| 1995 | 6,953 | #51 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 5,458 | #70 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 4,844 | #76 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 4,226 | #89 | 2.1 |
| 1991 | 3,893 | #94 | 1.9 |
| 1990 | 3,433 | #104 | 1.7 |
| 1989 | 3,281 | #104 | 1.6 |
| 1988 | 2,758 | #109 | 1.4 |
| 1987 | 1,951 | #144 | 1.0 |
| 1986 | 1,329 | #192 | 0.72 |
| 1985 | 995 | #233 | 0.54 |
| 1984 | 988 | #227 | 0.55 |
| 1983 | 780 | #265 | 0.44 |
| 1982 | 689 | #294 | 0.38 |
| 1981 | 693 | #290 | 0.39 |
| 1980 | 519 | #348 | 0.29 |
| 1979 | 468 | #370 | 0.27 |
| 1978 | 307 | #455 | 0.19 |
| 1977 | 203 | #593 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 113 | #782 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 85 | #898 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 71 | #974 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 68 | #984 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 60 | #1,043 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 55 | #1,104 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,109 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,120 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 58 | #963 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 52 | #1,013 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 59 | #946 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 48 | #1,075 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 66 | #940 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,144 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 60 | #992 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 50 | #1,112 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 59 | #1,001 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 54 | #1,055 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,121 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 44 | #1,176 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 44 | #1,150 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 65 | #924 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 59 | #968 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 58 | #944 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 51 | #1,009 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 62 | #894 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 48 | #1,015 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 53 | #950 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 56 | #926 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 59 | #910 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 50 | #948 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 49 | #924 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 48 | #926 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 54 | #914 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,132 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 45 | #958 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 56 | #846 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 45 | #940 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 38 | #1,056 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 38 | #1,046 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 42 | #964 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 43 | #977 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 63 | #782 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 60 | #796 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 65 | #790 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 44 | #1,007 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 44 | #1,043 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 69 | #777 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 47 | #1,015 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 65 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 52 | #950 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 80 | #726 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 86 | #712 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 61 | #878 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 73 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1921 | 86 | #702 | 0.08 |
| 1920 | 74 | #771 | 0.07 |
| 1919 | 81 | #694 | 0.08 |
| 1918 | 85 | #677 | 0.08 |
| 1917 | 94 | #613 | 0.10 |
| 1916 | 79 | #666 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 55 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1914 | 65 | #629 | 0.10 |
| 1913 | 38 | #770 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 35 | #731 | 0.08 |
| 1911 | 17 | #808 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 17 | #743 | 0.09 |
| 1909 | 18 | #646 | 0.11 |
| 1908 | 12 | #806 | 0.08 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,057 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 11 | #788 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 19 | #540 | 0.14 |
| 1904 | 13 | #670 | 0.10 |
| 1903 | 12 | #683 | 0.10 |
| 1902 | 13 | #633 | 0.11 |
| 1901 | 8 | #818 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 22 | #501 | 0.15 |
| 1899 | 10 | #686 | 0.09 |
| 1898 | 18 | #499 | 0.15 |
| 1897 | 16 | #507 | 0.14 |
| 1896 | 15 | #547 | 0.13 |
| 1895 | 15 | #543 | 0.13 |
| 1894 | 16 | #511 | 0.14 |
| 1893 | 15 | #490 | 0.13 |
| 1892 | 14 | #563 | 0.11 |
| 1891 | 15 | #464 | 0.15 |
| 1890 | 15 | #500 | 0.14 |
| 1889 | 32 | #309 | 0.29 |
| 1888 | 18 | #458 | 0.15 |
| 1887 | 29 | #308 | 0.29 |
| 1886 | 30 | #315 | 0.27 |
| 1885 | 32 | #304 | 0.30 |
| 1884 | 63 | #208 | 0.55 |
| 1883 | 20 | #389 | 0.19 |
| 1882 | 17 | #444 | 0.15 |
| 1881 | 13 | #496 | 0.13 |
| 1880 | 13 | #514 | 0.12 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Logan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 419,837 Americans recorded as Logan, 8% are girls and 92% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Logan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Logan, and how old are they?
410,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 419,837 Americans ever recorded as Logan. The median Logan alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 341,575 people named Logan (24,537 women and girls, 317,038 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 365,639 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 165 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 681 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,210 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 54,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 210,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 142,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Logan born?
The states with the most babies named Logan are California, Texas and New York, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 730 | #52 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 603 | #78 | 0.7× |
| New York | 438 | #28 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 395 | #51 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 286 | #39 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 261 | #22 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 244 | #38 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 231 | #55 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 207 | #61 | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 187 | #24 | 0.8× |
Where Logan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Logan is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1910 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Logan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 421,923 babies since 1880, Logan is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6,351 of their 6,357 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Logan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Logan and names like it
- Compare Logan and LogenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLogan peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Logan since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Logan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Logan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Logan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.