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Sloan: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 324 in 2025. Its best rank was #572 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #572 in 2021; #840 in 2025. About 84% of babies named Sloan in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#840 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #572.
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Sloan: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 324 girls in 2025. Peak: #572 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 530 (2021).
In 2025, 324 US girls were named Sloan, making it the 840th most common girls’ name of the year, down 74 places from #766 in 2024. That is 45 fewer than the 369 girls named Sloan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #572, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 530. For comparison, it was #702 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 62 US boys were named Sloan, making it the 2,282nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 188 places from #2,094 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 72 boys named Sloan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,082, reached in 1885. The most boys given the name in a single year was 94, in 2021. For comparison, it was #2,351 in 2015 and #2,992 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sloan in 103 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 5 babies. In all, 11,268 US babies have been given the name, 74% of them girls and 26% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,598 babies named Sloan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,558 US girls were named Sloan; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 530. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,961 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sloan ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #273 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sloane (25,086 babies since 1880).
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sloan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 5 | #273 | — |
| Iowa | 8 | #434 | #327 |
| Minnesota | 12 | #457 | #659 |
| Oregon | 8 | #474 | #340 |
| Michigan | 15 | #546 | #457 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #548 | — |
| Kentucky | 8 | #564 | — |
| Kansas | 6 | #570 | #403 |
| Missouri | 10 | #584 | #671 |
| Colorado | 9 | #628 | #528 |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #644 | #819 |
| Indiana | 10 | #646 | #847 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #687 | — |
| Utah | 6 | #695 | #549 |
| Illinois | 12 | #788 | #658 |
| Ohio | 12 | #791 | #697 |
| Georgia | 13 | #793 | #810 |
| California | 36 | #826 | #741 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #863 | #823 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #877 | #1,227 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #895 | #631 |
| Arizona | 6 | #1,023 | #567 |
| Virginia | 7 | #1,025 | #768 |
| Texas | 27 | #1,057 | #850 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,533 | #795 |
| New York | 8 | #1,640 | #1,205 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 324 | #840 | 62 | #2,282 |
| 2024 | 369 | #766 | 72 | #2,094 |
| 2023 | 421 | #689 | 79 | #1,964 |
| 2022 | 465 | #634 | 84 | #1,890 |
| 2021 | 530 | #572 | 94 | #1,739 |
| 2020 | 433 | #665 | 70 | #2,045 |
| 2019 | 482 | #623 | 78 | #1,912 |
| 2018 | 520 | #587 | 87 | #1,776 |
| 2017 | 497 | #610 | 92 | #1,714 |
| 2016 | 517 | #591 | 74 | #1,969 |
| 2015 | 406 | #702 | 56 | #2,351 |
| 2014 | 337 | #822 | 73 | #1,977 |
| 2013 | 297 | #871 | 66 | #2,063 |
| 2012 | 257 | #984 | 74 | #1,936 |
| 2011 | 291 | #897 | 73 | #1,921 |
| 2010 | 249 | #1,011 | 72 | #1,952 |
| 2009 | 147 | #1,543 | 59 | #2,248 |
| 2008 | 122 | #1,799 | 54 | #2,402 |
| 2007 | 115 | #1,846 | 50 | #2,529 |
| 2006 | 85 | #2,264 | 44 | #2,691 |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,930 | 41 | #2,694 |
| 2004 | 74 | #2,341 | 49 | #2,335 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,224 | 48 | #2,260 |
| 2002 | 80 | #2,123 | 43 | #2,399 |
| 2001 | 76 | #2,170 | 42 | #2,378 |
| 2000 | 75 | #2,155 | 46 | #2,191 |
| 1999 | 78 | #2,015 | 54 | #1,850 |
| 1998 | 87 | #1,799 | 38 | #2,342 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,619 | 51 | #1,854 |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,205 | 52 | #1,783 |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,418 | 41 | #2,051 |
| 1994 | 53 | #2,429 | 48 | #1,819 |
| 1993 | 55 | #2,346 | 35 | #2,252 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,427 | 34 | #2,248 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,696 | 29 | #2,458 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,635 | 29 | #2,426 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,868 | 34 | #2,101 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,385 | 30 | #2,133 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,845 | 32 | #1,971 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,746 | 27 | #2,149 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,312 | 28 | #2,065 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,147 | 23 | #2,280 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,411 | 15 | #3,051 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,493 | 18 | #2,694 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,845 | 21 | #2,408 |
| 1980 | — | — | 24 | #2,208 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,877 | 14 | #3,147 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,564 | 15 | #2,908 |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,051 | 21 | #2,260 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,000 | 8 | #4,365 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,919 | 17 | #2,524 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,420 | 31 | #1,614 |
| 1973 | 23 | #3,001 | 26 | #1,773 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,057 | 16 | #2,409 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,483 | 15 | #2,538 |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,566 | 27 | #1,693 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,387 | 25 | #1,673 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,144 | 11 | #2,709 |
| 1967 | 12 | #4,019 | 10 | #2,744 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,737 | 15 | #2,122 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,598 | 10 | #2,757 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,662 | 11 | #2,643 |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,416 | 11 | #2,651 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,468 | 5 | #4,548 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,400 | — | — |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,305 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,494 | 5 | #4,499 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,361 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,871 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,601 | — | — |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,300 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,589 | 9 | #2,880 |
| 1952 | — | — | 10 | #2,657 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,664 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,992 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,284 |
| 1947 | — | — | 9 | #2,840 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #3,200 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,980 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,451 |
| 1940 | — | — | 8 | #2,835 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,798 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,988 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,917 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,625 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,475 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,946 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,127 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,694 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,864 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,428 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,251 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #4,263 |
| 1920 | — | — | 11 | #2,740 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #3,091 |
| 1918 | — | — | 10 | #2,855 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,497 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,439 |
| 1915 | — | — | 13 | #2,163 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,430 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,861 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,713 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #1,082 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).