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Cloe

#2,758 in 2025Girls' name

Young green shoot, through Chloe

Cloe has been given to 3,927 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #2,758 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 300 recorded.

Babies named Cloe, 2025

1 in 53,500

Cloe over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cloe: meaning, origin, and history

Young green shoot, through Chloe

Ancient Greek

What Cloe means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Cloe is used in English and Italian. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Chloe.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Cloe is pronounced /ˈkloʊ.i/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,922 girls were recorded with the name Cloe between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 300 in 2008; its best national rank was #914 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,192 in 2020 to #2,758 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,224 in 2015 to #2,758 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Cloe between 1918 and 1918. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1918; its best national rank was #4,294 in 1918.

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 Cloe?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 53,500
62 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 25,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,758
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,064 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cloe 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 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cloe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cloes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cloe was born before 2006 — so the typical Cloe is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
56.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,625
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Choose a decade

2000s — 56.1% of all recorded uses (2,200).

Is Cloe 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
+24
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+434
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+466
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.7%
Peak was 2008 (300)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#914
2008

Spellings of Cloe

Cloe is not the most common spelling — Chloe is, with 34.3% against Cloe's 0.53%.

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 Cloe is used

Across 1910–2025, Cloe was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 69,927 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 33,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 33,333
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 50,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 50,000
  7. 7Missouri1 in 50,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 50,000

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. Cloe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cloe around the world

Where Cloe 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1992–2013
    #816
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    1989–2008
    #862
    in 2008
  • France
    1901–2025
    #678
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,615
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1984–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Notable people named Cloe

People whose public names include Cloe, 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.

Cloe in other languages

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

CloCleoKloeChloeKloéChloéChloëChlöe

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

Cloe by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,758
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 434
Best rank ever
#914
2008
Peak year
2008
300 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,922
Count in 2025
62

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,294
1918
Peak year
1918
5 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
1918
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cloe

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

KloeCloeyCloverCloraCloieKhloeClovisCloisCloeeCloveClomaClodaghCloaClorindaClovaAloeClotildeClotealCloteeCloriaClorisChloeCloCloyce

Names with a curve like Cloe

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

TaniyaCitlalyJoselinSheylaAdamarisTaniyahJaniaKaniyaMakiyaJamyaJailaJamaya

Sibling names for Cloe

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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