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All around the world, סלואן (Sloan , Sloane , סלואן ) is quite a rare epicene first name. The first name סלואן is characteristic of the United States, where it is quite a rare epicene name, Israel, where it is a rare primarily female, but very seldom boy's name, and Australia, where it is a rare gender-neutral name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in the United States, France, and Australia. More prevalently, סלואן is the last name as well as the forename.
סלואן 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; Sloane , the theatrical character in the play "Entertaining Mr Sloane" and Sloan Dietz , the character in The Mentalist.