Chloey
Feminine · “Greek khloe”
Chloe was Demeter's title. It means the first green shoot of a crop, and the goddess of grain was worshipped under it in spring, when the young corn came up. The name is not a general word for green; it is specifically the color of new wheat.
How old is the name Chloey?
Chloey first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Chloey alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 1,200 people named Chloey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Chloey most popular?
Chloey peaked in 2011, reaching #2238 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 7,219 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From khloe to Chloey
The story of Chloey
Greek gods carried epithets naming particular aspects and particular cults, and Demeter had many: Thesmophoros, the lawgiver; Karpophoros, the fruit-bringer; and Chloe, the green shoot, worshipped at a sanctuary on the slope of the Acropolis where a ram was sacrificed in spring. Her daughter's name, Kore, simply means the girl. The word khloe belongs to a small family of Greek color terms covering the yellow-green range, and it gave chlorophyll, the green of leaves, and chlorine, named in 1810 for the color of the gas. The name reached Christian use through Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, where he mentions that he has had news from Chloe's people, and English took it up in the seventeenth century among the pastoral names, alongside Phyllis and Damon.
Meaning
Greek khloe, a young green shoot
Chloey is a spelling of Chloe, from Greek khloe, the first green shoot of a plant, used as an epithet of Demeter in her spring aspect. The same root gives chlorophyll and chlorine, both named for a yellow-green color. Chloe is named in 1 Corinthians as a woman whose household reported to Paul. The peak of this spelling is 2011.
How the name formed
- khloe
- Chloe
- Chloey
Related forms: Chloe · Chloe · Khloe
Pronouncing Chloey
KLOH-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. The ch is said k, following the Greek chi. Chloey and Chloe are homophones; the y replaces the diaeresis that French and older English used to show the second syllable.
Nicknames for Chloey
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1995
- Most girls named
- 200986 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2238reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- −16.7%10 in 2025, from 12
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Chloey in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Chloe in English — spelling variant
- Chloe in French — same name
- Khloe in Greek — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Ohio.
Chloeys among us
people named Chloey are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Chloey
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Chloey
- #9457
- Chloey on the 2025 chart
- #923
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Chloey went to 10 girls in 2025, but Kloey, Khloey and Cloey are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 37, which makes it the 923rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,534 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 43,440 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 160,727 for Chloey itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Marlina test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Chloey's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marlina climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marlina's path sketches the road Chloey is walking now.
Chloey sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Chloey beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Chloey in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Greek meaning is precise and attractive.
- Clo and Coco are both usable short forms.
- Two syllables with a clear first-syllable stress.
- Chloe is overwhelmingly the standard spelling.
- The ch will be read as the ch of church by some.
- The added y is not doing phonetic work.
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Frequently asked
- How many Chloeys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Chloey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Chloey?
- Chloey is one of 4 recorded spellings. Kloey is the more common one — 13 births in 2025 against 10 for Chloey.
- How popular is the name Chloey in 2025?
- Chloey ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Chloey?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Chloey — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Chloey with classmates?
- Chloey will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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