Philo:
It was a common word that had a wide range of meanings. However, John used it in a technical and philosophical sense. That's why ESV translated it with a capital W.
Wiki:
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
Philo (c. 30 BCE – c. 50 CE) was a leading writer of the Hellenistic Jewish community in Alexandria, Egypt. He wrote expansively in Koine Greek on the intersection of philosophy, politics, and religion in his time.
ESV, John 1:The Logos becomes the aspect of the divine that operates in the world—through whom the world is created and sustained.
Strong's Greek: 3056. λόγος (logos) — 331 Occurrences1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
It was a common word that had a wide range of meanings. However, John used it in a technical and philosophical sense. That's why ESV translated it with a capital W.
Wiki:
The English word "logic" is derived from the Greek word "logos."Logos became a technical term in Western philosophy beginning with Heraclitus (c. 535 – c. 475 BC), who used the term for a principle of order and knowledge.[6] Ancient Greek philosophers used the term in different ways. The sophists used the term to mean "discourse". Aristotle applied the term to refer to "reasoned discourse"[7] or "the argument" in the field of rhetoric, and considered it one of the three modes of persuasion alongside ethos and pathos.[8] Pyrrhonist philosophers used the term to refer to dogmatic accounts of non-evident matters. The Stoics spoke of the logos spermatikos (the generative principle of the Universe) which foreshadows related concepts in Neoplatonism.[9]
Within Hellenistic Judaism, Philo (c. 20 BC – c. 50 AD) integrated the term into Jewish philosophy.[10] Philo distinguished between logos prophorikos ("the uttered word") and the logos endiathetos ("the word remaining within").[11]
The Gospel of John identifies the Christian Logos, through which all things are made, as divine (theos),[12] and further identifies Jesus Christ as the incarnate Logos.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
reason, the mental faculty of thinking, meditating, reasoning, calculating, etc.