Khloie
Feminine · “the first green shoot”
The kh at the front belongs to a different alphabet. It is the standard way of writing an Arabic and Persian sound English does not have — the one in Khadija and Khan — and Greek chloe has no such sound in it. The spelling borrows a convention from a language the name has never been near.
How old is the name Khloie?
Khloie first appears in US birth records in 2000 — 25 years ago. The typical Khloie alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 900 people named Khloie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Khloie most popular?
Khloie peaked in 2010, reaching #1830 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 10,102 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.
Where it comes from
From chloe to Khloie
The story of Khloie
Chloe as a title of Demeter names her at a particular moment: the goddess of grain in the phase when the crop is just showing, before anything can be relied on. The shrine was near the entrance to the Acropolis and the sacrifices there were made in early spring. The word then turns up as an ordinary woman's name in the first century, which is how it entered Christian use. The kh in this modern spelling is a separate matter. Transliterators use kh for a throat sound found in Arabic, Persian, Russian and Hebrew, and English readers have learned to read it as a marker of foreignness rather than of a particular sound — which is what it is doing here.
Meaning
the first green shoot
Greek chloe is the pale green of new growth — the color of a shoot just out of the ground rather than of a mature leaf. It was an epithet of Demeter, who had a shrine as Demeter Chloe on the slope of the Athenian Acropolis, and it appears as a woman's name in Paul's letter to Corinth.
How the name formed
- chloe
- Chloe
- Khloie
Related forms: Chloi · Chloe
Pronouncing Khloie
KLOH-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. The kh is said as a plain k in English. Chloe, Khloe and Khloie are identical in speech; only the spelling differs, and it differs several ways.
Nicknames for Khloie
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
- 2000
- Most girls named
- 2010111 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1830reached in 2010
- Change vs 2024
- −63.2%7 in 2025, from 19
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.
Khloie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Chloi in Greek — same name
- Chloe in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Alabama, Florida.
Khloies among us
people named Khloie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Khloie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Khloie
- #11932
- Khloie on the 2025 chart
- #937
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Khloie went to 7 girls in 2025, but Chloie and Kloie are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 23, which makes it the 937th most-given girls’ name of the year — 10,995 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 69,881 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Khloie 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 Brienna test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Khloie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Brienna climbed just as high around 1992, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Brienna's path sketches the road Khloie is walking now.
Khloie 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
Khloie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Khloie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Greek meaning that names something specific and seasonal.
- Two syllables that everyone can say correctly on first sight.
- The name behind it has been in continuous use since the first century.
- Chloe is overwhelmingly the standard spelling and this one will be corrected for life.
- The kh belongs to a transliteration system this name has nothing to do with.
- Khloe, Kloe and Chloie are all in use, so the spelling will be given letter by letter.
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Frequently asked
- How many Khloies 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 Khloie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Khloie?
- Khloie is one of 3 recorded spellings. Chloie is the more common one — 8 births in 2025 against 7 for Khloie.
- How popular is the name Khloie in 2025?
- Khloie ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Khloie?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Khloie — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Khloie with classmates?
- Khloie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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