Girl · Irish Gaelic
Sloane
Say it: SLOHN
Meaning
From the Irish surname Ó Sluagháin, from sluagh 'host, army, raid'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Rose as an American girls' name in the 2010s.
Its wave through time
Rising now
In the United States
- 15,079 babies given this name since 1958
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 1,000 girls
- 1,586 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Sloan
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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