Logan (given name)
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Logan is a given name derived from a Scottish place name meaning "Small, round hill" in Scottish Gaelic
. It is also a fairly common surname. The name was the 17th most popular name for baby boys born in the United States in 2007 and was the 455th most popular name for baby girls born there in 2007. It was the 54th most popular name for baby boys born in England
and Wales
in 2007 and was the 12th most popular name for boys born in Scotland in 2007 and the fourth most popular in 2009. It was also among the top 100 most popular names for boys in Canada
, Australia
, France
and Belgium
in the last five years.
Scottish Gaelic language
Scottish Gaelic is a Celtic language native to Scotland. A member of the Goidelic branch of the Celtic languages, Scottish Gaelic, like Modern Irish and Manx, developed out of Middle Irish, and thus descends ultimately from Primitive Irish....
. It is also a fairly common surname. The name was the 17th most popular name for baby boys born in the United States in 2007 and was the 455th most popular name for baby girls born there in 2007. It was the 54th most popular name for baby boys born in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
in 2007 and was the 12th most popular name for boys born in Scotland in 2007 and the fourth most popular in 2009. It was also among the top 100 most popular names for boys in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
and Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
in the last five years.
- Logan BaillyLogan BaillyLogan Bailly is a Belgian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Swiss club Neuchâtel Xamax on loan from Borussia Mönchengladbach.- Career :...
, Belgian football player - Logan BartholomewLogan Bartholomew| name = Logan Bartholomew| image =| imagesize = 150| caption =| birth_name = John Logan Batholomew| birth_date = | birth_place = Galion, Ohio, U.S....
, American actor - Logan Edwin BleckleyLogan Edwin BleckleyLogan Edwin Bleckley was an American lawyer and jurist.Born in 1827 on Screamer Mountain in Rabun County, Georgia, Bleckley became a self-taught lawyer. At age eleven, he started working in his father's office Logan Edwin Bleckley (July 3, 1827 – March 6, 1907) was an American lawyer and...
, American lawyer and jurist - Logan BrowningLogan BrowningLogan Laurice Browning is an American actress and singer. She is best known for playing Sasha in the 2007 film Bratz: The Movie and Brianna in Meet The Browns . She is sometimes credited as Logan L...
, American actress - Logan HendersonLogan HendersonLogan Phillip Henderson is an American actor, dancer, rapper and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his starring role as Logan Mitchell on the Nickelodeon series, Big Time Rush, as well as being a member of the Big Time Rush band itself.-Early life:Henderson was born and raised in North...
, American actor and singer - Logan Hudson, child actor
- Logan Kanapathi, Canadian local politician
- Logan KensingLogan KensingLogan French Kensing is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball.-Florida Marlins:...
, Major League Baseball player - Logan LermanLogan LermanLogan Wade Lerman is an American actor, known for playing the title role in the 2010 fantasy-adventure Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. He appeared in commercials in the mid 1990s, before starring in the series Jack & Bobby , and the movies The Butterfly Effect and Hoot...
, American actor - Logan MaderLogan MaderLogan Mader was born on November 16, 1970 in Montreal, Canada. Logan is best known for his work as a guitarist in the heavy metal band Machine Head, who formed in Oakland, California in 1992. Their 1994 debut, Burn My Eyes, was released by Roadrunner Records and quickly became the top-selling...
, Canadian heavy metal guitarist - Logan MankinsLogan Mankins-2005–06 seasons:Mankins was drafted with the final pick of the first round, 32nd overall, in the 2005 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots. Despite playing his entire collegiate career as a tackle, Mankins was moved to left guard by the Patriots, where he immediately stepped into the starting...
, American football player - Logan Marshall-GreenLogan Marshall-GreenLogan Marshall-Green is an American actor best known for his roles in Dark Blue, The O.C., 24, and Traveler.-Early life:...
, American actor - Logan MartinezLogan MartinezLogan Martinez is an American politician and activist who ran for the 2006 Ohio House of Representatives as a Green Party candidate. Logan Martinez is also an anchor for the Green Party News Program....
, American local politician - Logan MillerLogan MillerLogan Miller is an American actor and musician.Miller was born in Englewood, Colorado on February 18, 1992, and currently lives in Dallas, Texas. He played a teenage Connor Mead in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. He has a role in the Disney XD series I'm in the Band, playing Tripp Campbell...
, American actor - Logan O'BrienLogan O'BrienLogan Craig O'Brien is an American child actor and singer. O'Brien is best known for his role as Lucas Jones on General Hospital.-Biography:...
, American actor - Logan PauseLogan PauseLogan Pause is an American soccer player who currently plays for Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer.-College and Amateur:...
, Major League Soccer player - Logan RamseyLogan RamseyLogan Carlisle Ramsey, Jr. was an American character actor of television and film for nearly 50 years. Largely a TV actor, he appeared on, among others: The Edge of Night, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, Hawaii Five-O, M*A*S*H, Charlie's Angels, Mork and Mindy, Knight Rider and Night...
, American character actor - Logan ReedLogan ReedLogan Reed is an American actor in pornographic films. He has appeared in both gay and bisexual pornographic films.-Awards:For his appearance in the gay porn film Detention, Reed won the 2003 Adult Erotic Gay Video Award for Best Group Sex Scene and the Best Group Scene award at the 2004 GayVN...
, pornographic actor - Logan Sekulow, Christian talkshow host
- Logan Pearsall SmithLogan Pearsall SmithLogan Pearsall Smith was an American-born essayist and critic.Smith was born in Millville, New Jersey the son of the prominent Quakers Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith. His father's family had become wealthy from its glass factories...
, American essayist and critic - Logan SamaLogan SamaLogan Sama AKA. L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-OGAN Banks Sama is a British Grime DJ from Brentwood, Essex, who currently hosts a weekly Grime show on London radio station Kiss 100 which has been running since May 2005...
, UK grime DJ - Logan SwannLogan SwannLogan Swann is a former professional rugby league footballer who represented his country. Swann is related to several other rugby league players, notably cousins Willie and Anthony.-Early years:...
, New Zealand rugby league player - Logan TomLogan TomLogan Maile Lei Tom is an American indoor volleyball and beach volleyball player who plays for Fenerbahçe Universal. At age 19, Tom made her Olympic debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She also competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics and 2008 Beijing Olympics...
, beach volleyball player