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Logen vs Loghan

American parents have registered 1,482 Logens since 1880, against 1,180 Loghans. But in 2025 it was Loghan that was commoner, 12 babies to 6.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Logen against Loghan, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Logen Loghan

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 35 years in which either name was published, Logen for 23 years and Loghan for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Logen Loghan
Total US births 1,4821,180
Most in one year 10275
Babies in 2025 612
Estimated living today 1,5001,200
Median age today 1914
Peak year 20032018
Best rank 1,438th boys4,237th girls
Rank in 2025 10,695th14,942nd
First recorded 19911993
Girls / boys 168 / 1,314615 / 565

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Logens alive today are over 19; half the Loghans are over 14. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Logen Loghan
England and Wales 2473

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Logen and Loghan.