Cloey
Feminine · “green shoot”
Chloe means the first green of spring. The Greek khloe named the young shoot coming up out of the ground, and it was a title of Demeter — the goddess of grain worshipped under that name for exactly the moment the crop appears. Cloey drops the h, which turns a Greek letter combination into an ordinary English c and makes the name readable at a glance.
How old is the name Cloey?
Cloey first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Cloey alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,900 people named Cloey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cloey most popular?
Cloey peaked in 2008, reaching #1339 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 13,603 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
From khloe to Cloey
The story of Cloey
Chloe appears in the New Testament as a woman in Corinth whose household reported a quarrel to Paul, which is how the name reached Christian use. English Protestants took it up, and it became a pastoral name in seventeenth-century poetry — the standard name for a shepherdess. Modern use is much larger: Chloe became one of the most-given girls' names in the English-speaking world in the last thirty years. Cloey is the respelling that removes the Greek h, and its record rose sharply through the 2000s.
Meaning
green shoot; young verdure
From the Greek khloe, the fresh green growth of a plant. It was used as an epithet of Demeter in her aspect as the goddess of the sprouting crop, and it is the root behind chlorophyll — the green in leaves — which is a neat piece of continuity.
How the name formed
- khloe
- Chloe
- Cloey
Related forms: Chloi · Chloé · Cloe
Pronouncing Cloey
KLOH-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. The ey ending guarantees the second syllable, which the plain Chloe leaves to a reader's knowledge of Greek — a fair number of people meeting that spelling cold say one syllable.
Nicknames for Cloey
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
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 2008183 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1339reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −28.6%5 in 2025, from 7
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.
Cloey in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Chloi in Greek — same name
- Chloé in French — same name
- Cloe in Spanish — spelling variant
Cloeys among us
people named Cloey are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Cloey
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Cloey
- #14942
- Cloey on the 2025 chart
- #923
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Cloey went to 5 girls in 2025, but Kloey, Chloey and Khloey 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 — 14,019 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 43,440 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 321,453 for Cloey 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 Yanira test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Cloey's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Yanira climbed just as high around 1989, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Yanira's path sketches the road Cloey is walking now.
Cloey 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
Cloey beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cloey in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The ending removes the ambiguity that the standard spelling carries for anyone unfamiliar with it.
- The Greek word behind it is vivid, seasonal and connected to chlorophyll.
- Five letters, two syllables, and readable on sight.
- Spanish uses Cloe without the h too, so the simplification is not only American.
- Chloe is far commoner and will be written instead on nearly everything.
- Dropping the h removes the visible Greek origin from the page.
- The name family is currently very heavily used, so a girl will meet many near-namesakes.
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Frequently asked
- How many Cloeys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Cloey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Cloey?
- Cloey is one of 4 recorded spellings. Kloey is the more common one — 13 births in 2025 against 5 for Cloey.
- How popular is the name Cloey in 2025?
- Cloey ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cloey?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Cloey — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cloey with classmates?
- Cloey will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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