girls:
30.2k births since 1972
#807 (86th percentile)
boys:
376k births since 1880
#91 (98th percentile)
overall:
406.3k births since 1880
#176 (98th percentile)
The name Logan is the #176 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 406,254 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #91 (98.0% percentile) for all time with 376,005 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #807 (85.9% percentile) for all time with 30,249 births since 1972.
Logan has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1972 for girls).
The name Logan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 88.7% of babies named Logan were boys.
For boys, Logan reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 99.6% percentile (ranked #5) with 7,100 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 7,100 births per million (ranked 99.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Logan ranks #38 for boys (95.9% percentile) with 3,651 births per million, which is 51.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Logan reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 71.0% percentile (ranked #276) with 585 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 585 births per million (ranked 71.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Logan ranks #333 for girls (64.9% percentile) with 489 births per million, which is 83.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Logan".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Logan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Logan is pronounced as LOH-guhn, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like L OW1 G AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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