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Cleone

Girls' name

Glory

Cleone has been given to 1,325 babies in the U.S. since 1890. 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 1926, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Cleone, 1957

1 in 600,000

Cleone over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cleone: meaning, origin, and history

Glory

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cleone means

Cleone means “glory”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Cleone is used in Greek Mythology (Latinized).

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,320 girls were recorded with the name Cleone between 1890 and 1957. Its highest annual count was 50 in 1926; its best national rank was #992 in 1915.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Cleone between 1924 and 1924. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1924; its best national rank was #4,468 in 1924.

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 Cleone?

Cleone had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1957, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1957
1 in 600,000
7 of 4,201,368 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1957
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
416,025 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cleone 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 1957 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 416,025 children born in 1957 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cleone. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cleones were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cleone was born before 1925 — so the typical Cleone is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
56
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Choose a decade

1920s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (367).

Is Cleone 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 1926 (50)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#992
1915

Spellings of Cleone

Cleone is not the most common spelling — Leona is, with 56.3% against Cleone's 0.66%.

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 Cleone is used

Across 1910–2025, Cleone was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 90,521 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 33,333
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 33,333
  3. 3Utah1 in 33,333
  4. 4North Dakota1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Oregon1 in —
  7. 7Wisconsin1 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. Cleone has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cleone around the world

Where Cleone 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
    1915–1921
    #1,082
    in 1921
  • South Australia
    1953–1984
    #661
    in 1984

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.

Cleone 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
#992
1915
Peak year
1926
50 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
1957
All-time count
1,320
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,468
1924
Peak year
1924
5 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
1924
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cleone

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

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Sibling names for Cleone

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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