Logan
Meaning
"little hollow," from the Gaelic lagan, a Scottish place and clan name; it crossed from surname to first name and climbed for decades, worn mostly by boys and increasingly by girls. Highland roots, all-terrain modern appeal
Famously borne by Logan Martin, the Australian Olympic BMX freestyle champion.
The story
Logan started as Scottish ground underfoot: a place name meaning small hollow, attached to lands in Ayrshire, that became a family surname and traveled wherever Scots settled. For most of the twentieth century it stayed on the quiet edge of American naming, a surname first and a given name only now and then. Its climb began late in the century and steepened quickly, and comic-book readers will recognize Logan as the name carried by Wolverine, the most famous of the X-Men; as the films rolled out from 2000 onward the name kept rising, and while the climb had started earlier, the timing is hard to ignore. Logan reached its peak in the 2010s, sitting comfortably among the country's favorite boys' names, and it remains a fixture: rugged in sound, gentle in meaning.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Logan peaked in the 2010s.
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Popularity in Brazil
1,666 people · the #5,816 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 125,000 · median age 11
Among people named Logan living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2010s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 302 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Logan
Most people given the name Logan in the United States are teenagers or young adults today.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Logan deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Logan truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Logan fits with your family’s names and surname.
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