Girl · Ancient Greek
Chloe
Say it: KLOH-ee
Meaning
Greek Chloē, 'young green shoot', an epithet of the goddess Demeter.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Used by Puritans after its mention by Paul and very popular in English and French since the 1990s.
Its wave through time
A revival, back after decades away
In the United States
- 223,038 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 2010, about 1 in 151 girls
- 6,099 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Biblical WorldAbout 1200 BC to AD 100
- Ancient Greece800 BC to 146 BC
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
Ancient GreekEarly ChristianEnglishAmericanFrenchGreekQuébécois
The family of the name
Other spellings: Chloë, Cloe, Chloé, Khloe
| French | Chloé |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Cloe |
| Italian | Cloe |
| Portuguese | Cloé |
| Greek | Chloe |
| Greek | Chloi |
Famous bearers
- Chloe, mentioned in 1 Corinthians 1:11
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Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Ancient Greek literature and history (Homer, Herodotus, Plutarch and others)
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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