Logan

64,755 people in the United States were counted with the surname Logan in the 2020 census, making it the 507th most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,616.

By the numbers

People: 64,755
Rank: 507th
How common: 1 in 4,616
Per 100,000: 21.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

From Scottish Gaelic lag (“little hollow”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Logan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 61.9%
Black, not Hispanic 27.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Logan

Johnny Logan (born 1954)Irish singer and songwriter
Joshua Logan (1908–1988)American stage and film director and writer
Phyllis Logan (born 1956)Scottish actress
John Logan (born 1961)American playwright and screenwriter
Karl Logan (born 1965)American guitarist
Jacqueline Logan (1901–1983)American actress
Lara Logan (born 1971)South African television and radio journalist, and war correspondent
Sarah Logan (born 1993)American professional wrestler

People named Logan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Logan

Also a first name

Logan has been given to 419,837 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2007. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.