Sloane
Sloane was given to 2,077 girls in 2025, #141 among girls’ names; 25,086 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 24,900 Americans named Sloane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sloane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sloane mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sloane is “a female given name.”
/sloʊn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sloane?
#141 among girls’ names, 2025
Sloane rose from #327 in 2015 to #141 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.56 to 1.3 per 1,000.
2,089 babies in 2025, the peak
Sloane peaked in 2025, when 2,089 babies were given it (2,077 girls, #141 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 1,941 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,077 | #141 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 1,941 | #153 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 1,897 | #151 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 2,056 | #140 | 1.3 |
| 2021 | 1,920 | #145 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 1,584 | #181 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 1,547 | #193 | 0.92 |
| 2018 | 1,631 | #181 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 1,407 | #221 | 0.81 |
| 2016 | 1,191 | #266 | 0.67 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 998 | #327 | 0.56 |
| 2014 | 882 | #369 | 0.49 |
| 2013 | 756 | #405 | 0.43 |
| 2012 | 640 | #479 | 0.36 |
| 2011 | 576 | #511 | 0.33 |
| 2010 | 497 | #593 | 0.28 |
| 2009 | 310 | #886 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 264 | #1,004 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 217 | #1,178 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 163 | #1,397 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 120 | #1,665 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 148 | #1,410 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,967 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 102 | #1,777 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 104 | #1,735 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 84 | #1,992 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 103 | #1,630 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 98 | #1,653 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 66 | #2,130 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,974 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 87 | #1,695 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 63 | #2,158 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 68 | #2,038 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,656 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 70 | #1,987 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 66 | #2,045 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 63 | #2,015 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,122 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,092 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,122 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,854 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,937 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,453 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,504 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,932 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,946 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,601 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,509 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,042 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,151 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,455 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,837 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 23 | #3,002 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,163 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,250 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 42 | #2,009 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,099 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,144 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,261 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,650 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,668 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,737 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,353 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,235 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,245 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,331 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sloane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 25,086 Americans recorded as Sloane, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 2,077 girls and 12 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sloane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sloane, and how old are they?
24,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 25,086 Americans ever recorded as Sloane. The median Sloane alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 13,114 people named Sloane (12,817 women and girls, 297 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,777 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 62 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 333 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 882 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,650 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 19,900 |
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 Sloane born?
The states with the most babies named Sloane are California, Texas and New York, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 183 | #178 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 178 | #186 | 0.8× |
| New York | 120 | #135 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 104 | #90 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 95 | #90 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 92 | #206 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 89 | #121 | 1.0× |
| Colorado | 79 | #58 | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 75 | #92 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 72 | #137 | 0.8× |
Where Sloane is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sloane is most over-represented in Colorado: since 1958 it was given 1.6 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 girls’ 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 Sloane 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 36,459 babies since 1880, Sloane is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,089 of their 2,481 babies (84%), 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 Sloane
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 Sloane and names like it
- Compare Sloane and SloanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSloane peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sloane since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Sloane.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sloane alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.