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The LOGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 64,576 465 0.024 239
United States (1880 census) 17,571 312 0.035 351
Change since 1880 +47005 -153 -0.011 -112
Other Countries
Australia 3,193 481 0.02 195
United Kingdom 11,195 535 0.024 244
Top States for LOGAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 5,215 616 0.015 154
Texas 3,967 654 0.019 190
Florida 3,243 609 0.020 203
Pennsylvania 2,962 391 0.024 241
Ohio 2,944 403 0.026 259
Top States for LOGAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 1,656 247 0.058 582
Alabama 2,095 331 0.047 471
Kentucky 1,596 374 0.039 395
Oklahoma 1,362 315 0.039 395
South Carolina 1,571 403 0.039 392

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LOGAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LOGAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LOGAN in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LOGAN by picking someone at random in Mississippi than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LOGAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LOGAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the LOGAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LOGAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 685 1.06
Asian/Pacific 362 0.56
White (Caucasian) 43,318 67.08
Black/African American 17,500 27.1
Mixed Race 1,324 2.05
White (Hispanic) 1,388 2.15

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LOGAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LOGAN in historical publications

(origin: Gaelic.) An inclosed plain or low-lying place. If the residence of a Briton was on a plain, it was called Lann, from Lagen or Logen; if on an eminence, it was termed dun.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


LOGAN. A Celtic word used In Scottish topography, both singly and as a pi-efix, and siguifyiug a hollow place, or plain, or meadow surrounded by rising grounds, Gaz. of Scotl.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to LOGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LOGAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LOGAN

The following words are slight variants of LOGAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.