Kloe
Feminine · “green shoot”
Kloe is a respelling of Chloe that trades the Greek ch for a plain k — which is closer to how the Greek was actually said.
How old is the name Kloe?
Kloe first appears in US birth records in 1991 — 34 years ago. The typical Kloe alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 3,300 people named Kloe are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kloe most popular?
Kloe peaked in 2010, reaching #965 nationally. Today it ranks #4067, 3,102 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kloe
Ours, offered as ours. The ch in Chloe, Christopher and Chaos is a Latin convention for rendering the Greek letter chi, which was a k with aspiration — nothing like the English ch. Every English speaker who says KLOH-ee is already saying it more correctly than the spelling suggests. Kloe simply writes down what everyone does. That makes it a respelling that is, unusually, closer to the source than the standard form.
Meaning
green shoot, young growth
From Greek chloe, the first green of a crop; the Greek letter chi was a k sound with a puff of breath, not the ch of church, so a k spelling is arguably a better transliteration than the traditional one.
Pronouncing Kloe
KLOH-ee
Two syllables, first stressed. Kloe and Chloe are said identically.
Nicknames for Kloe
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
- 1991
- Most girls named
- 2009267 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #965reached in 2010
- Change vs 2024
- +9.4%35 in 2025, from 32
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.
Kloe in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Chloe in English — spelling variant
- Cloe in Spanish — spelling variant
- Χλόη in Greek — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Kloes among us
people named Kloe are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 45,922 born in 2025 was named Kloe
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kloe
- #4067
- Kloe on the 2025 chart
- #18
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kloe went to 35 girls in 2025, but Chloe, Khloe and Cloe are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 7,501, which makes it the 18th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,049 places above the chart.
and 2 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 214 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 45,922 for Kloe 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 Steven test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kloe's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Steven climbed just as high around 1969, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Steven's path sketches the road Kloe is walking now.
Kloe 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
Where Kloe is headed
Kloe is easing off slowly — about 23% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kloe beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kloe 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 with a genuinely lovely image behind it.
- The k is arguably a truer transliteration than the standard ch.
- Four letters and two syllables, about as easy to write as a name gets.
- Chloe is the standard spelling and will be written for her constantly.
- Kloe, Khloe, Cloe and Chloe are four live spellings of one name.
- The sound is very widely used, so a classroom may hold more than one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kloes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,300 people named Kloe are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kloe?
- Kloe is one of 4 recorded spellings. Chloe is the more common one — 6,203 births in 2025 against 35 for Kloe.
- How popular is the name Kloe in 2025?
- Kloe ranks #4067 among US girl names in 2025, with 35 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kloe?
- About 1 in every 45,922 US girls born in 2025 was named Kloe — 35 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kloe with classmates?
- Kloe will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Kloe
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