Sloan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Gaelic personal name Sluaghadhán, literally ‘little Sluaghadh’, from sluaghadh ‘expedition, raid’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/sloʊn/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Sloan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 7.2K
- CACanada≈1 in 7.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 503 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
43,261 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the Gaelic personal name Sluaghadhán, literally ‘little Sluaghadh’, from sluaghadh ‘expedition, raid’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Sloan, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sloan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #657 | 43,261 | 1 in 7.7K | 43K | Sloan | 503 |
| GB United Kingdom | #667 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 5.1K | Sloan | 214 |
| CA Canada | #753 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 8 | Sloan | 179 |
| AU Australia | #770 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 1 | Sloan | 167 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Sloan | 28 |
| NZ New Zealand | #772 | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Sloan | 65 |
| IE Ireland | #647 | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Sloan | 64 |
43,261 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sloan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Irish Gaelic: a warrior
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- John Sloanb. 1871USAmerican painter (1871–1951)
- Alfred P. Sloanb. 1875USAmerican businessman (1875–1966)
- Jerry Sloanb. 1942USAmerican basketball player and coach (1942–2020)
- Tina Sloanb. 1943USAmerican actress
- Sam Sloanb. 1944USAmerican chess player
- Amy Sloanb. 1978CACanadian actress
- Robin Sloanb. 1979USAmerican writer (born 1979)
- Tyler Sloanb. 1981CACanadian ice hockey player
- Donald Sloanb. 1988USAmerican basketball player (born 1988)
- Anna Sloanb. 1991GBScottish and British curler
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)51 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 43K | #800 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 42K | #743 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 42K | #808 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 5.1K | #1,560 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Sloan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Sloan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sloan.
- What does the name Sloan mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Gaelic personal name Sluaghadhán, literally ‘little Sluaghadh’, from sluaghadh ‘expedition, raid’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Sloan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 43,261 people named Sloan in 2010, about 1 in 7.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Sloan compared with other names?
- In the United States, Sloan is the 657th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Sloan?
- In English /sloʊn/ (Wiktionary).
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sloanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sloan” — the 657th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.