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Cleopatra

#3,589 in 2025Girls' name

Glory + father

Cleopatra has been given to 2,484 babies in the U.S. since 1889. In 2025 it ranked #3,589 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Cleopatra, 2025

1 in 78,900

Cleopatra over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cleopatra: meaning, origin, and history

Glory + father

Ancient Greek

What Cleopatra means

Cleopatra means “glory + father”, associated with κλέος and πατήρ.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Middle English Cleopatra, from Latin Cleopatra, from Ancient Greek Κλεοπάτρα (Kleopátra), meaning "glory of her father", from κλέος (kléos, “glory”) + πατήρ (patḗr, “father”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Cleopatra (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Cleopatra is used in English and Spanish. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Cleopatra comes through Middle English Cleopatra, Latin Cleopatra and Ancient Greek Κλεοπάτρα.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Cleopatra is pronounced /kliːoʊˈpætɹə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,484 girls were recorded with the name Cleopatra between 1889 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 52 in 1974; its best national rank was #1,077 in 1910.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,631 in 2020 to #3,589 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,696 in 2015 to #3,589 in 2025.

How common is Cleopatra?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 78,900
42 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 38,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,589
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
54,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cleopatra 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 2025 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 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cleopatra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cleopatras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cleopatra was born before 1972 — so the typical Cleopatra is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
13.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,473
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 13.7% of all recorded uses (340).

Is Cleopatra 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
−176
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+42
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,107
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.8%
Peak was 1974 (52)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,077
1910

Where Cleopatra is used

Across 1910–2025, Cleopatra was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 265,274 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Virginia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Louisiana1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 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. Cleopatra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cleopatra around the world

Where Cleopatra 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,719
    in 2025
  • France
    2022–2022
    #4,930
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2013–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1961–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Cleopatra

People whose public names include Cleopatra, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Cleopatra in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Cleopatra. Linked forms have their own page here.

CleoKleopatraCléopâtre

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Cleopatra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,589
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 42
Best rank ever
#1,077
1910
Peak year
1974
52 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,484
Count in 2025
42

Names similar to Cleopatra

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

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Names with a curve like Cleopatra

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cleopatra, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Cleopatra

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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