Sloan
#838 for girls in 2025, 324 births · #2,258 for boys in 2025, 62 births
Given to girls 74.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 530 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,385since 1953
Sloan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #838 | 324 | #2,258 | 62 |
| 2024 | #762 | 369 | #2,078 | 72 |
| 2023 | #689 | 421 | #1,954 | 79 |
| 2022 | #634 | 465 | #1,875 | 84 |
| 2021 | #572 | 530 | #1,721 | 94 |
| 2020 | #664 | 433 | #2,024 | 70 |
| 2019 | #622 | 482 | #1,899 | 78 |
| 2018 | #587 | 520 | #1,762 | 87 |
| 2017 | #609 | 497 | #1,707 | 92 |
| 2016 | #590 | 517 | #1,959 | 74 |
| 2015 | #701 | 406 | #2,328 | 56 |
| 2014 | #821 | 337 | #1,959 | 73 |
| 2013 | #866 | 297 | #2,044 | 66 |
| 2012 | #978 | 257 | #1,923 | 74 |
| 2011 | #896 | 291 | #1,905 | 73 |
| 2010 | #1,008 | 249 | #1,940 | 72 |
| 2009 | #1,538 | 147 | #2,231 | 59 |
| 2008 | #1,789 | 122 | #2,374 | 54 |
| 2007 | #1,838 | 115 | #2,504 | 50 |
| 2006 | #2,248 | 85 | #2,659 | 44 |
| 2005 | #2,902 | 56 | #2,653 | 41 |
| 2004 | #2,326 | 74 | #2,316 | 49 |
| 2003 | #2,203 | 78 | #2,238 | 48 |
| 2002 | #2,113 | 80 | #2,372 | 43 |
| 2001 | #2,151 | 76 | #2,346 | 42 |
| 2000 | #2,141 | 75 | #2,175 | 46 |
| 1999 | #1,999 | 78 | #1,824 | 54 |
| 1998 | #1,789 | 87 | #2,312 | 38 |
| 1997 | #2,590 | 49 | #1,836 | 51 |
| 1996 | #2,177 | 62 | #1,764 | 52 |
| 1995 | #2,394 | 54 | #2,026 | 41 |
| 1994 | #2,412 | 53 | #1,795 | 48 |
| 1993 | #2,322 | 55 | #2,209 | 35 |
| 1992 | #2,386 | 54 | #2,214 | 34 |
| 1991 | #2,660 | 45 | #2,406 | 29 |
| 1990 | #2,600 | 45 | #2,373 | 29 |
| 1989 | #2,810 | 39 | #2,068 | 34 |
| 1988 | #3,306 | 29 | #2,090 | 30 |
| 1987 | #3,743 | 23 | #1,938 | 32 |
| 1986 | #3,645 | 23 | #2,096 | 27 |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 | #2,019 | 28 |
| 1984 | #3,990 | 19 | #2,232 | 23 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 | #2,912 | 15 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | #2,596 | 18 |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 | #2,338 | 21 |
| 1980 | — | #2,162 | 24 | |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | #3,018 | 14 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #2,202 | 21 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | #2,450 | 17 |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 | #1,582 | 31 |
| 1973 | #2,914 | 23 | #1,736 | 26 |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 | #2,323 | 16 |
| 1971 | #3,373 | 19 | #2,464 | 15 |
| 1970 | #2,522 | 29 | #1,658 | 27 |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 | #1,642 | 25 |
| 1968 | #3,057 | 18 | #2,576 | 11 |
| 1967 | #3,845 | 12 | #2,611 | 10 |
| 1966 | #2,668 | 21 | #2,043 | 15 |
| 1965 | #2,538 | 23 | #2,617 | 10 |
| 1964 | #2,600 | 23 | #2,546 | 11 |
| 1963 | #2,364 | 26 | #2,539 | 11 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | #3,232 | 14 | — | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | #2,709 | 9 |
| 1952 | — | #2,514 | 10 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,770 | 8 | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | #3,010 | 7 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,671 | 9 | |
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | #2,964 | 7 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,671 | 8 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,609 | 8 | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,719 | 8 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
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| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,766 | 9 | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,175 | 8 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,602 | 11 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,877 | 9 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,699 | 10 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,070 | 13 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,271 | 9 | |
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
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| 1885 | — | #936 | 5 | |
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Sloan! It came in at #5,040, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1954–1955, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Sloan
- 76 spots since 2024 (#762 → #838)
- 174 spots since 2020 (#664 → #838)
- 137 spots since 2015 (#701 → #838)
- Biggest jump: 120 spots in 2015 (#821 → #701)
- Biggest drop: 82 spots in 2012 (#896 → #978)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 2021 at #572 (530 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2011–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,096 girls born in 2021 were named Sloan (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,961 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 46.0% of all girls named Sloan (3,853) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1997, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 38 | #3,232 (1958) | #4,891 |
| 1960s | 146 | #2,364 (1963) | #3,744 |
| 1970s | 131 | #2,522 (1970) | #5,692 |
| 1980s | 185 | #2,810 (1989) | #4,278 |
| 1990s | 582 | #1,789 (1998) | #2,333 |
| 2000s | 908 | #1,538 (2009) | #2,125 |
| 2010s | 3,853 | #587 (2018) | #768 |
| 2020s | 2,542 | #572 (2021) | #693 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sloan in 1953
Top girls' names in 1953
Top boys' names in 1953
More about 1953
girls
1,881,301 girls got a published name in 1953; 1 in 313,550 of them was named Sloan, which outranked 22.4% of the 6,497 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,595Yevette7
- #4,595Zelia7
- #4,595Zeta7
- #5,040Sloan6
- #5,040Abelina6
- #5,040Adah6
- #5,040Adelfa6
- #5,673Abagail5
- #5,673Adelene5
- #5,673Adelmira5
Tied with 632 names at #5,040; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,972,299 boys got a published name in 1953; 1 in 219,144 of them was named Sloan, which outranked 37.6% of the 4,341 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,531Zachery10
- #2,531Zannie10
- #2,531Zeno10
- #2,709Sloan9
- #2,709Abie9
- #2,709Albaro9
- #2,709Alcide9
- #2,905Abron8
- #2,905Alban8
- #2,905Alejo8
Tied with 195 names at #2,709; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.