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Logan vs Logen

American parents have registered 419,837 Logans since 1880, against 1,482 Logens. Logan is still ahead, with 6,351 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Logan against Logen, 1880 to 2025 0 5k 10k 15k 20k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Logan Logen

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Logan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Logan had 14,072 and Logen had 102.

Side by side

  Logan Logen
Total US births 419,8371,482
Most in one year 16,039102
Babies in 2025 6,3516
Estimated living today 411,0001,500
Median age today 1719
Peak year 20072003
Best rank 17th boys1,438th boys
Rank in 2025 53rd10,695th
First recorded 18801991
Girls / boys 31,838 / 387,999168 / 1,314

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Logens alive today are over 19; half the Logans are over 17. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Logan Logen
England and Wales 41,82424

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Logan and Logen.