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Around the globe, Sloan (Sloan , سلون , 斯隆 , among others...) is quite a rare dominantly masculine, but infrequently feminine first name. The forename Sloan is characteristic of the United States, where it is a rare largely boy's, but uncommonly female name, Israel, where it is a rare predominantly girly, but scarcely male name, and Iraq, where it is a rare masculine name. Measured by absolute frequency, this name is the most popular in the United States, China, and Iraq. More frequently, Sloan is the last name as well as the forename.
Sloan is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Sloan , the Eragon character; Sloan Riley , the fictional character from the television series Grey's Anatomy and Sloan Dietz , the character in The Mentalist.