Logan
Logan is ranked 46th among boys in 2024 (6,267 births). Its best rank was 5th, in 2017.
- Rank in 2024
- #46down 7 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6,2670.37% of boys
- Peak year
- 200715,330 births
- Best rank
- #5in 2017
- Since 1880
- 413,411people given the name
The story in the numbers
382,352 boys have been named Logan in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 15,330 births — 0.74% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 13 → 46).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2000s alone account for 35%. It has spent 123 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 34 of them in the top 100 and 2 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 31,059 girls have also been given it, 7.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Logan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 267 | |
| 1890s | 149 | |
| 1900s | 136 | |
| 1910s | 566 | |
| 1920s | 693 | |
| 1930s | 482 | |
| 1940s | 507 | |
| 1950s | 532 | |
| 1960s | 546 | |
| 1970s | 1,490 | |
| 1980s | 13,985 | |
| 1990s | 63,572 | |
| 2000s | 134,031 | |
| 2010s | 126,825 | |
| 2020s | 38,571 |
In 2007, its biggest year
Logan was the 17th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Logan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kolepeak 2009
- Kameronpeak 2015
- Abisaipeak 2004
- Daylanpeak 2008
- Isaiahpeak 2006
- Xavierpeak 2007
- Haganpeak 2009
- Sebastienpeak 2007
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.