Sloane comes from an Irish surname, an anglicized form of Ó Sluaghadháin. It means ‘descendant of Sluaghadhán’, a name that stands for ‘raid, mobilization’.
Sloane is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Sloane isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Sloane ranks 217. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 8 were named Sloane. In the entire USA, approximately 16,825 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Sloane. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Sloane comes from an Irish surname, an anglicized form of Ó Sluaghadháin. It means ‘descendant of Sluaghadhán’, a name that stands for ‘raid, mobilization’.
Did you know... that Sloane is a slang term for young, upper-middle-class West Londoners?
Sloane is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Sloane cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #134 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Sloane, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Sloane seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sloane was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Sloane occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Sloane is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Sloane is not one of those names that one encounters in every neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, is noticeable and special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 16,819 women and girls of all generations bear the name Sloane – that is one in 9,167. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Utah, where one in 3,183 women and girls is called Sloane, while it is particularly rare in Mississippi, where you have to ask an average of 120,315 women for their name to get Sloane as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Sloane is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Sloane and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sloane, you can simply say:
Sun
Lion
Orange
Apple
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sloane
Sloane
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sloane sounds like this:
