Sloane
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sloane is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from the Gaelic personal name Sluaghadhán, literally ‘little Sluaghadh’, from sluaghadh ‘expedition, raid’.
- AUAustralia1 in 24K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 69K
- USUnited States1 in 91K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.7K ●
- Sources
- 321 ●
- 1 in 91K ◐
across 3 countries
57K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
from the Gaelic personal name Sluaghadhán, literally ‘little Sluaghadh’, from sluaghadh ‘expedition, raid’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,673 | 46K rec. | 1 in 91K | 13K | Sloane | 321 |
| AU Australia | 3,462 | 3.8K rec. | — | 4 | Sloane | 126 |
| GB United Kingdom | 3,369 | 3.4K rec. | — | 14 | Sloane | 116 |
| CA Canada | 938 | 1.2K rec. | — | 36 | Sloane | 67 |
| NZ New Zealand | 212 | 198 rec. | — | 10 | Sloane | 49 |
| ZA South Africa | 166 | 184 rec. | — | — | Sloane | 25 |
| IT Italy | 137 | 182 rec. | — | — | Sloane | 8 |
| MA Morocco | 117 | 140 rec. | — | — | Sloane | 6 |
| RU Russia | 98 | 121 rec. | — | — | Sloane | 6 |
| IE Ireland | 93 | 97 rec. | — | — | Sloane | 28 |
| ES Spain | 14 | 90 rec. | 1 in 3.6M | 14 | — | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 10 rec. | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | 5 |
Roughly 3.7K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 91K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English43K86%
- Spanish1.4K3%
- Welsh1.3K3%
- 6611%
- French5081%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 43,339 | 86% |
| Spanish | 1,373 | 3% |
| Welsh | 1,349 | 3% |
| 661 | 1% | |
| French | 508 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Sloane is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Guerrera
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Croatian, engleski liječnik i prirodoslovac čija je iznimno vrijedna zbirka knjiga, manuskripata i neobičnosti bila baza za osnivanje glasovitog Britanskog muzeja ( British Museum ) (1759)
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1958 | 7 |
| 1961 | 8 |
| 1962 | 8 |
| 1963 | 27 |
| 1964 | 22 |
| 1965 | 22 |
| 1966 | 22 |
| 1967 | 11 |
| 1968 | 18 |
| 1969 | 37 |
| 1970 | 42 |
| 1971 | 21 |
| 1972 | 21 |
| 1973 | 23 |
| 1974 | 17 |
| 1975 | 11 |
| 1976 | 12 |
| 1977 | 18 |
| 1978 | 12 |
| 1979 | 16 |
| 1980 | 10 |
| 1981 | 15 |
| 1982 | 17 |
| 1983 | 17 |
| 1984 | 15 |
| 1985 | 33 |
| 1986 | 30 |
| 1987 | 53 |
| 1988 | 55 |
| 1989 | 63 |
| 1990 | 66 |
| 1991 | 70 |
| 1992 | 92 |
| 1993 | 68 |
| 1994 | 63 |
| 1995 | 87 |
| 1996 | 72 |
| 1997 | 66 |
| 1998 | 98 |
| 1999 | 103 |
| 2000 | 84 |
| 2001 | 104 |
| 2002 | 102 |
| 2003 | 93 |
| 2004 | 148 |
| 2005 | 120 |
| 2006 | 163 |
| 2007 | 217 |
| 2008 | 264 |
| 2009 | 310 |
| 2010 | 497 |
| 2011 | 576 |
| 2012 | 640 |
| 2013 | 756 |
| 2014 | 882 |
| 2015 | 998 |
| 2016 | 1,191 |
| 2017 | 1,407 |
| 2018 | 1,631 |
| 2019 | 1,547 |
| 2020 | 1,584 |
| 2021 | 1,920 |
| 2022 | 2,056 |
| 2023 | 1,897 |
| 2024 | 1,941 |
| 2025 | 2,077 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 66 years between 1958–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Hans Sloaneb. 1660GBIrish botanist, doctor, and collector (1660-1753)
- John Sloaneb. 1779USAmerican politician
- T. O'Conor Sloaneb. 1851USAmerican editor (1851-1940)
- Emily Thorn Vanderbiltb. 1852USnot in their usual nameAmerican socialite
- Paul Sloaneb. 1893USAmerican film director and screenwriter (1893–1963)
- Everett Sloaneb. 1909USAmerican actor (1909–1965)
- Neil Sloaneb. 1939GBBritish mathematician
- Michael Sloaneb. 1959USFilm director, actor, screenwriter
- Lindsay Sloaneb. 1977USAmerican actress
- Barry Sloaneb. 1981GBEnglish actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 40 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 265 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sloane?
- We estimate roughly 3.7 thousand people bear Sloane (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sloane have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 3.7 thousand people bear Sloane in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sloane.
- What does the name Sloane mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the Gaelic personal name Sluaghadhán, literally ‘little Sluaghadh’, from sluaghadh ‘expedition, raid’
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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sloane”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.