Kleio

#9,790 in 2025Girls' name

Glory

Kleio has been given to 65 babies in the U.S. since 2017. In 2025 it ranked #9,790 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Kleio, 2025

1 in 332,000

Kleio over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kleio: meaning, origin, and history

Glory

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kleio means

Kleio means “glory”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 65 girls were recorded with the name Kleio between 2017 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2024; its best national rank was #9,790 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,854 in 2020 to #9,790 in 2025.

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 Kleio?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,790
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kleio 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kleio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kleios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kleio was born before 2022 — so the typical Kleio is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
81.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
65
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Choose a decade

2020s — 81.5% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Kleio 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
+136
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,064
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2024 (10)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
6.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,790
2025

Spellings of Kleio

Kleio is not the most common spelling — Cleo is, with 50.5% against Kleio's 0.10%.

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.

Kleio around the world

Where Kleio 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
    2006–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1995–1995
    #712
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kleio by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,790
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,064
Best rank ever
#9,790
2025
Peak year
2024
10 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
65
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Kleio

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

Sibling names for Kleio

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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