Sloan — #762 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Sloan

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,061 babies named Sloan between 1953 and 2024, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sloan currently holds the #762 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 530 babies received it in a single year. Sloan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,820 additional births since 1885.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sloan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,853 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Sloan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 852 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Sloan in 39 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sloan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 8,061 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.