Sloane

Meaning of Sloane

She drifts into the ear on a single, river–smooth syllable—Slohn—yet behind that soft arrival lies a lineage as spirited as a legionary’s march: born of the Irish clan name Ó Sluaghadháin, “little raider,” she once rode the misty shores of Ulster before crossing seas and centuries, slipping into the salons of London’s Sloane Square and the silver frame of Ferris Bueller’s rebel romance, until, like a swallow following summer, she found new skies in America, where her numbers have climbed from a handful in the 1970s to nearly two thousand newborn bearers in recent years. In her sound one hears both steel and silk—the quiet confidence of a strategist and the effortless grace of a dancer beneath a Latin moon—and so parents who choose Sloane gift their daughter a tale of wanderers turned way-finders, a name that speaks of courage tempered by elegance, of ancient Gaelic fires glowing warmly through modern glass.

Pronunciation

English

• Pronunced as SLOHN (/sloʊn/)

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