Logan
Americannoun
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John or James Tah-gah-jute, c1725–80, leader of the Cayuga tribe.
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Joshua, 1908–1988, U.S. playwright, director, and producer.
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Mount, a mountain in Canada, in the Mount Elias Mountains: second highest peak in North America. 19,850 feet (6,050 meters).
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a city in N Utah.
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a male given name.
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Etymology
Origin of logan
C18: from logging-stone, from dialect log to rock
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Visiting from Derbyshire along with Logan the border terrier, Phil said he and Carol were married in Scarborough, stayed there at least three times a year and called the town their "second home".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The most expensive Pokémon card to date was sold this year at an auction in February—a 1998 Pikachu card held by prank-YouTuber-turned-boxer and eternal online ragebaiter Logan Paul.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
The last time Centennial coach Matt Logan was on the same field with Santa Margarita, his face with bright red at the Rose Bowl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
At the meeting, regional Fed presidents Beth Hammack, Lorie Logan and Neel Kashkari all favored raising interest rates immediately.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
She pulled into the airport parking and rushed inside, scanning the monitors for the next departing flight to Logan.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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Fun fact: Loganberries are a cross between black- and raspberries; boysenberries of logan, black-, and raspberries.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2022
Here are the first tweets, which he later deleted, via Topsy: lara logan had to outdo anderson. where was her buddy mccrystal?
From Forbes ● Feb. 16, 2011
With his birch horn, and seated beside some lake on a quiet evening, he sends back into the forest or across some shallow logan the weird "woo-oo-oo, woo-woo-oo" of the cow moose calling the bull.
From Habits, Haunts and Anecdotes of the Moose and Illustrations from Life by Burt Jones
The other would swing the logs of the Enchanted drive into the quiet holding-ground of the logan.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
Venerable in their hoary antiquity stand those monuments of a long-vanished humanity, the cromlechs which are so numerous in Wales, sharing with the logan and the inscribed stone the peasant’s superstitious interest.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
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