Logan Is Not in the Bible: A Scottish Name Meaning “Little Hollow”

A hollow is a place where something is missing. That is the whole of what the name means. Logan is Scottish, from lagan, a little hollow — a dip in the hills near Auchinleck in Ayrshire. It was a place before it was a family, and a family before it was anybody’s first name. It says where people lived. It makes no claim about God at all, and it is not in the Bible. But Scripture is oddly attentive to…