Sloane
Top 1000
About Sloane
Sloane is a sleek, sophisticated surname name that has gradually morphed over to the girls' side. With its distinctive and intriguing sound, Sloane has been in the US Top 1000 since 2009, and in 2022, it made its first appearance in the UK charts, jumping more than 400 places in a single year.
Derived from the Irish surname Ó Sluaghadháin, meaning "raider" or "mobilizer", Sloane shares that preppy feel of Blair, Delaney, Ellis, and Quincy.
Sloane has been the name of girlfriend characters in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Entourage, and was used for a character played by Olivia Munn on The Newsroom. The video game, Overwatch 2 includes a character called Sloane, English actor Barry Sloane has made it familiar through his surname, while Sloane Stephens is a highly ranked tennis player.
Comedian Rob Coddry called his daughter Sloane Sullivan, while rapper Macklemore gave his daughter the name Sloane Ava Simone - and let her direct one of his music videos in 2023.
The association with London's Sloane Square and the upscale clique of Sloane Rangers, who have included Princesses Di and Kate, gives it some extra panache.
Pronounced SLON.
As of October 2026, Sloane ranked #141 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #140 in 2022, Nameberry popularity #82.
Editor's take: The name Sloane is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "raider".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #369 | 882 | 493.7 |
| 2015 | #327 | 998 | 559.1 |
| 2016 | #266 | 1,191 | 672.1 |
| 2017 | #221 | 1,407 | 815 |
| 2018 | #181 | 1,631 | 958.8 |
| 2019 | #192 | 1,547 | 921.7 |
| 2020 | #181 | 1,584 | 979.9 |
| 2021 | #144 | 1,920 | 1,170.1 |
| 2022 | #140 | 2,056 | 1,253.6 |
| 2023 | #151 | 1,896 | 1,181.6 |
| 2024 | #153 | 1,937 | 1,195.5 |
| 2025 | #141 | 2,077 | 1,292.3 |
World rankings
Similar names
These 20 names were selected by our users looking for other names like Sloane.
- Sutton
- Rowan
- Lennon
- Rory
- Marlowe
- Ellis
- Elliot
- Sawyer
- Hadley
- Finley
- Harlow
- Maren
- Sloan
- Camillia
- Blair
- Greer
- Arden
- Delaney
- Emerson
- Cace
Sloane on lists
Famous Sloanes
- Sloane Stephens
American tennis player
- Sloane Crosley
American memoirist and author
- Sloane Sullivan Corddry (b. 2006)
daughter of actor Rob Corddry
- Sloane Potts (b. 2010)
daughter of Olympic triathlete Andy Potts
- Sloane Cooley (b. 2014)
daughter of NFL player Chris Cooley
- Sloane Ava Simone Haggerty (b. 2015)
daughter of rapper Macklemore
- Lindsay Sloane
American actress
Sloane in pop culture
- Sloane Peterson
character from the film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
- Sloan McQuewick
character on the television show "Entourage"
- Sloan Sabbith
character from HBO's "The Newsroom"
- Sloane Barstow
a character in the books "The Program" and "The Treatment" by Suzanne Young
- Sloane
character in movie "Raise Your Voice"
- Magaret Sloane Jameson
characters in the book "Lucid"; both protagonists have the same name, one goes by Maggie, the other Sloane
- Sloane Spencer
character in the ABC Family movie "Christmas Cupid"
- Sloane Rangers
British upper,class subculture
- Sloane Vasquez
Riley Vasquez's sister in "The Masked Truth" by Kelley Armstrong
- Sloane
an NPC in the podcast "The Adventure Zone"