Chlo

Girls' name

Young green shoot, through Chloe

Chlo has been given to 34 babies in the U.S. since 2015. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2020, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Chlo, 2023

1 in 663,000

Chlo over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chlo: meaning, origin, and history

Young green shoot, through Chloe

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chlo means

Chlo belongs to the name family reached through Chlo → Chloe. Its meaning is “young green shoot”.

Origin, language, and formation

Chlo is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Chloe.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 34 girls were recorded with the name Chlo between 2015 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2020; its best national rank was #10,441 in 2020.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Chlo?

Chlo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Chlo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chlo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chlos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chlo was born before 2019 — so the typical Chlo is around 6 today.

Median birth year: 2019; About 6 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 58.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 34; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 58.8% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Chlo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2020 (9)
Years since peak: 5; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 50.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #10,441; 2020

Spellings of Chlo

Chlo is not the most common spelling — Chloe is, with 63.0% against Chlo's <0.01%.

Chloe63.0%254,389
Khloe12.4%49,923
Cleo8.3%33,565
Cali5.8%23,342
Echo1.2%4,829
Cielo1.2%4,764
Halo1.1%4,509
Cloe0.97%3,922

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Chlo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #10,441; 2020
Peak year: 2020; 9 that year
First recorded: 2015
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 34
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Chlo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Chleo Chloa Chloi Chloye Khlo Chlora Chlorene Kahlo Chloelynn Chloemae Chloey Chloie Chloris Chloeann Chlorine Chloee Chloeanne Chloeigh Chloegrace Chloemarie Chloejane Chloe

Sibling names for Chlo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Dior Kamiyah Haisley Harmoni Melani Lianna Denisse Remy

For a brother

Kannon Kaison Santana Keanu Henri Joziah Ishaan Rian

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