Sloan - name meaning, origin

The boy's name Sloan \s-lo

, also used as girl's name Sloan, is pronounced slohn. It is of Irish and Gaelic origin, and its meaning is "man of arms, warrior". Irish surname in rare use as a given name; Sloane is used as a feminine form, and is associated with "Sloane Square" in west London, where a particular kind of young, upper-class women (known as "Sloane rangers") have their flats. Novelist Sloan Wilson.

Sloan has 1 variant form: Sloane.

Baby names that sound like Sloan are Selwyn, Selwin and Slawin.

Sloan is an uncommon first name for men but a very common last name for both men and women (#665 out of 88799). (1990 U.S. Census)

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