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Chloris

Girls' name

Pale green

Chloris has been given to 230 babies in the U.S. since 1897. 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 1915, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Chloris, 1969

1 in 579,000

Chloris over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chloris: meaning, origin, and history

Pale green

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chloris means

Chloris means “pale green”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Chloris is used in Greek Mythology.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 230 girls were recorded with the name Chloris between 1897 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,591 in 1897.

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.

How common is Chloris?

Chloris had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1969
1 in 579,000
6 of 3,475,126 births
Among girls only
1 in 281,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1969
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,463 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chloris 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 1969 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 401,463 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chloris. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chloriss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chloris was born before 1923 — so the typical Chloris is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
44.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 44.8% of all recorded uses (103).

Is Chloris 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (16)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,591
1897

Spellings of Chloris

Chloris is not the most common spelling — Deloris is, with 49.8% against Chloris's 0.33%.

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.

Where Chloris is used

Across 1910–2025, Chloris was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 212,456 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Chloris has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chloris around the world

Where Chloris ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1992–2006
    #5,369
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Chloris 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
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Best rank ever
#1,591
1897
Peak year
1915
16 that year
First recorded
1897
Last recorded
1969
All-time count
230
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chloris

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

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Sibling names for Chloris

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

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