Cloie
Feminine · “Green shoot”
Cloie drops the h that marks the Greek letter chi, and the c is then doing the work by itself. Greek writes the sound at the front of this name with a single character; Latin wrote it ch to show that it was Greek; and English has spent two thousand years carrying a letter it does not need.
How old is the name Cloie?
Cloie first appears in US birth records in 1894 — 131 years ago. The typical Cloie alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 900 people named Cloie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cloie most popular?
Cloie peaked in 1909, reaching #1471 nationally. See the whole 1909 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Chloe to Cloie
The story of Cloie
The name turns up once in the New Testament as the head of a household. Paul, writing to the church at Corinth, says that he has been told about their quarrels by Chloe's people, which is the whole of the reference: no explanation, no husband mentioned, and a household identified by a woman's name in a period when that was not the default. Scholars have taken it as evidence that she was a woman of some standing, possibly a business owner with slaves or employees who traveled between the two cities. Nothing else is known about her at all, and she is the reason a fifth of the letters in the New Testament exist.
Meaning
Green shoot
The Greek word means the first green of a new plant, and it was used as a title of the goddess of grain in her aspect as the bringer of young crops. As a personal name it is that word taken directly. The h in the standard spelling marks a Greek letter and is silent in every language that borrowed it.
How the name formed
- Chloe
- Cloie
Related forms: Chloe · Chloe
Pronouncing Cloie
KLOH-ee
Two syllables, said exactly as the standard spelling. The final e is sounded, which is unusual in English and is why the name is often given a diaeresis in French and sometimes in English.
Nicknames for Cloie
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
- 1894
- Most girls named
- 200770 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1471reached in 1909
- Change vs 2019
- −33.3%6 in 2021, from 9
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.
Cloie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Chloe in French — same name
- Chloe in Greek — transliteration
Cloies among us
people named Cloie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Cloie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The spelling removes a silent letter without changing the sound at all.
- The meaning is concrete, pleasant and easy to give a child in two words.
- The spoken name is entirely established and never needs repeating.
- Chloe is the standard spelling everywhere and this will be corrected constantly.
- The final e must be sounded, which readers meeting the name cold often miss.
- It is strongly dated to the turn of the last century in this spelling.
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- How many Cloies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Cloie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Cloie in 2025?
- Cloie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Cloie with classmates?
- Cloie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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