Sloane

Where Sloane comes from

The dictionaries list Sloane as a given name — a unisex given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1958
    First appearance
    #4,890 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1981
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1993
    Sloane Stephens born
    US American tennis player
  4. 2022
    Peak, #140
    2,056 babies named Sloane — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A female given name.
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Sloane Stephens · US American tennis player, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.