Sloane
Pronounced S L OW1 N (ARPABET)
- 1 syllable
- Peaked 2022
- 72 years in use
- 2 spellings
How popular is Sloane?
Sloane is a girls' name, and first appears in 1953. It has been given to 30,684 children — the 719th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: about three times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2022, when 2,521 children were given it.
Two other spellings are counted in that total — Sloan and Slone — because they are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Sloane and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Sloan
- Slone
Characteristics
- 1 syllable
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- S L OW1 N
- Stress pattern:
- 1
- Syllables:
- 1
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Sloane
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Sloane
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Sloane?
- Sloane ranks 719th among girls' names in US records, with 30,684 births since 1953. Over the past decade it accounts for 20,837.
- Is Sloane a unisex name?
- No. Sloane is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Sloane most popular?
- 2022, when 2,521 children were given the name. It has been in use for 72 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Sloane spelled?
- Sloan, Slone. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.