Logan
Feminine · Scottish Gaelic roots · “little hollow”
Logan is given to both — 31,838 girls and 387,999 boys since 1880. See Logan as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Logan began as a place in Ayrshire — a hollow in the Scottish landscape — then became the surname of the people from it, then traveled with them to Ulster, Canada and the United States before anyone thought to give it to a baby as a first name. It is two clean syllables that nobody has to spell twice, and it has been climbing and settling in English-speaking countries for well over a century.
How old is the name Logan?
Logan first appears in US birth records in 1972 — 53 years ago. The typical Logan alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 31,500 people named Logan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Logan most popular?
Logan peaked in 1996, reaching #257 nationally. Today it ranks #402, 145 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
From lag / lagan (Scottish Gaelic, 'hollow') to Logan
The story of Logan
The oldest Logan is a piece of ground: a hollow in Ayrshire in southwest Scotland, whose name gave the local family theirs. Scottish and Ulster-Scots families carried the surname across the Atlantic, where it stuck to the map as well as to people — Mount Logan in the Yukon, Boston's Logan airport, the town of Logan, Utah. Like Douglas, Ross and Craig before it, the surname eventually slipped forward into first-name position, and it has been on American records since the nineteenth century. It still ranks in Canada, Scotland and England & Wales, which is unusual: most surname-first-names stay on one side of the ocean.
Meaning
little hollow
From Scottish Gaelic lagan, a diminutive of lag, 'hollow' or 'low-lying place' — the source of the place name Logan in Ayrshire, from which the surname comes. An unrelated Irish surname, Ó Leocháin, was also anglicized as Logan.
How the name formed
- lag / laganScottish Gaelic, 'hollow'
- Loganplace, Ayrshire
- LoganScottish surname
- Logangiven name
Related forms: Lagan · Ó Leocháin · Loghan
Pronouncing Logan
LOH-gan
Two syllables, stress on the first. The spelling gives the sound away, so it survives phone calls, roll calls and coffee cups without correction.
Nicknames for Logan
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1972
- Most girls named
- 20171,106 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #257reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- −4.1%775 in 2025, from 808
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Logan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lagan in Scottish Gaelic — related form
- Ó Leocháin in Irish — related form
- Loghan in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Pennsylvania.
Logans among us
people named Logan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 2,074 born in 2025 was named Logan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Glenna test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Logan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Glenna climbed just as high around 1931, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Glenna's path sketches the road Logan is walking now.
Logan sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Logan is headed
Logan should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Logan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Logan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled the way it sounds and known everywhere in the English-speaking world — little risk of lifelong correcting.
- Charts in Canada, Scotland and England & Wales as well as the US, so it travels without translation.
- Short and complete on its own; it needs no nickname, though Lo and Logie are there if wanted.
- Reads as neither childish nor stuffy — it sits comfortably on a kindergarten cubby and a business card alike.
- A documented line from a Scottish place name through a family surname to a given name, unbroken and traceable.
- It reads male to most people on paper. A girl named Logan will meet forms and rosters that assume otherwise — manageable, but worth knowing in advance.
- The name rose sharply and is now easing back, so it clusters heavily around people in their teens and twenties. It may sound of a particular moment rather than timeless for a while.
- Very little to shorten. If you like a long name with a private nickname inside it, Logan gives you almost nothing to work with.
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Frequently asked
- How many Logans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 31,500 people named Logan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Logan in 2025?
- Logan ranks #402 among US girl names in 2025, with 775 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Logan?
- About 1 in every 2,074 US girls born in 2025 was named Logan — 775 in all.
- Will my child share the name Logan with classmates?
- Logan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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