Sloane
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
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.
Sloane for girls#141 US
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.
Sloane for boys#7128 US
An Irish surname-name that's used almost exclusively for girls these days, given last year to nearly 2000 baby girls in the US vs. 23 baby boys.
Pronounced SLON.
As of October 2026, Sloane ranked #141 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #140 in 2022, Nameberry popularity #51.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #369 | 882 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #327 | 998 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #266 | 1,191 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #221 | 1,407 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #181 | 1,631 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #192 | 1,547 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #181 | 1,584 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #144 | 1,920 | #4,757 | 21 |
| 2022 | #140 | 2,056 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #151 | 1,896 | #4,442 | 24 |
| 2024 | #153 | 1,937 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #141 | 2,077 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Famous Sloanes
- Sloane StephensGirl
American tennis player
- Sloane CrosleyGirl
American memoirist and author
- Sloane Sullivan Corddry (b. 2006)Girl
daughter of actor Rob Corddry
- Sloane Potts (b. 2010)Girl
daughter of Olympic triathlete Andy Potts
- Sloane Cooley (b. 2014)Girl
daughter of NFL player Chris Cooley
- Sloane Ava Simone Haggerty (b. 2015)Girl
daughter of rapper Macklemore
- Lindsay SloaneGirl
American actress
- Sloane PringleBoy
photographer
Sloane in pop culture
- Sloane PetersonGirl
character from the film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
- Sloan McQuewickGirl
character on the television show "Entourage"
- Sloan SabbithGirl
character from HBO's "The Newsroom"
- Sloane BarstowGirl
a character in the books "The Program" and "The Treatment" by Suzanne Young
- SloaneGirl
character in movie "Raise Your Voice"
- Magaret Sloane JamesonGirl
characters in the book "Lucid"; both protagonists have the same name, one goes by Maggie, the other Sloane
- Sloane SpencerGirl
character in the ABC Family movie "Christmas Cupid"
- Sloane RangersGirl
British upper,class subculture
- Sloane VasquezGirl
Riley Vasquez's sister in "The Masked Truth" by Kelley Armstrong
- SloaneGirl
an NPC in the podcast "The Adventure Zone"
- Mark SloaneBoy
character in TV show "Grey's Anatomy"