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Logan

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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
Babies named Logan, by year of birthboys
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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

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Logan
1880s267
1890s149
1900s136
1910s566
1920s693
1930s482
1940s507
1950s532
1960s546
1970s1,490
1980s13,985
1990s63,572
2000s134,031
2010s126,825
2020s38,571

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.

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.