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Logan vs Loghan

American parents have registered 419,837 Logans since 1880, against 1,180 Loghans. Logan is still ahead, with 6,351 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Logan Loghan

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 2010, when Logan had 14,652 and Loghan had 75.

Side by side

  Logan Loghan
Total US births 419,8371,180
Most in one year 16,03975
Babies in 2025 6,35112
Estimated living today 411,0001,200
Median age today 1714
Peak year 20072018
Best rank 17th boys4,237th girls
Rank in 2025 53rd14,942nd
First recorded 18801993
Girls / boys 31,838 / 387,999615 / 565

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 Logans alive today are over 17; half the Loghans are over 14. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Logan Loghan
England and Wales 41,82473
France 18,080590
Scotland 7,41712
Northern Ireland 1,4576

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 Loghan.