Logan

Logan meaning

Logan is an international boy's name of Scottish Gaelic origin.

Little hollow: Gaelic lagan, diminutive of lag, "hollow"

Logan is a Scottish surname taken from a place called Logan in Ayrshire. The place name comes from Gaelic lagan, a diminutive of lag, 'a hollow', so it means 'little hollow'; the Ordnance Survey surveyors of the 1850s recorded An Lagan as 'the little hollow, valley, or cavity', and the related Irish word log also means a hollow. Like many Scottish surnames, Logan became a first name, first in Scotland and then across the English-speaking world. Baby-name lists give 'little hollow', which matches the Gaelic. It is said LOH-gun and is easy to pair with Indian surnames.

Source: Ordnance Survey Name Books, Perthshire, 1859–1862, volume 2 (ScotlandsPlaces), p. 16 · entry An Lagan · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026

References: Ordnance Survey Name Books, Perthshire vol. 2, An Lagan · Ó Dónaill, Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, log · Wikipedia, Logan (given name)

Popularity abroad

• #53 United States, boys 2025 (down 8 from 45 in 2024)
  US Social Security Administration
• #87 England and Wales, boys 2025
  Office for National Statistics

Official birth registrations. India publishes no national name statistics.

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