Sloane, a surname-turned-given-name, comes from the Irish names Ó Sluaghadháin and Sluaghadhán, which are derived from the Irish word sluaghadh, meaning "raid" or "mobilization." Sloane first appeared on the Social Security Administration's top 1,000 for girl names in 2009, cracked the top-500 by 2012 and has now been a top-200 girl's name every year since 2018. It's the name American soccer stars Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris gave their daughter Sloane Phillips, born in 2021.
