Sloan

Sloan is the 808th most common surname in the United States, shared by 41,599 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 7,185.

By the numbers

People: 41,599
Rank: 808th
How common: 1 in 7,185
Per 100,000: 13.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.8%
Black, not Hispanic 13.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Sloan

Alfred P. Sloan (1875–1966)American businessman
Jerry Sloan (1942–2020)American basketball player and coach
John Sloan (1871–1951)American painter
Bridget Sloan (born 1992)American gymnast
Edward Van Sloan (1882–1964)American film character actor
Sasha Alex Sloan (born 1995)American singer-songwriter
Donald Sloan (born 1988)American basketball player
Anna Sloan (born 1991)Scottish and British curler

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

Surnames like Sloan

Also a first name

Sloan has been given to 11,268 American babies as a first name since 1885, peaking in 2021. See it as a given name.

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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.