Klover
Feminine · Old English roots · “clover”
Klover is given to both — 742 girls and 23 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Klover is the everyday word clover, spelled with a K. The plant itself has been called by that name in English since Old English clāfre, and the four-leaf sport of it has been pocketed as a luck token in English and Irish folk custom for centuries — so the sound arrives already known, even when the spelling is new. Two syllables, stress on the first, and nothing in it to puzzle over aloud.
How old is the name Klover?
Klover first appears in US birth records in 2002 — 23 years ago. Klover is overwhelmingly a brand-new baby name right now — most Klovers are still in diapers. About 700 people named Klover are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Klover most popular?
Klover peaked in 2025, reaching #1173 nationally. Today it ranks #1173, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From clāfre (Old English) to Klover
The story of Klover
This is a word name, and a young one in that use. Clover joined the small English family of botanical given names — the pasture flower rather than the garden bloom — and Klover is the K-initial respelling of it, part of a broad American habit of swapping C for K in girls' names. The plant word is ancient; the name is recent, and the American record for this spelling begins in the present century, still climbing rather than settling. Its early footing has been strongest in the South, in Texas, Georgia and Tennessee.
Meaning
clover, the three-leaved meadow plant
The word goes back to Old English clāfre and has meant the same plant ever since. What the K adds is style rather than sense: as a name, Klover carries the meaning of the word it borrows.
How the name formed
- clāfreOld English
- cloverEnglish word
- Clover
- Klover
Related forms: Clover
Pronouncing Klover
KLOH-ver
Said exactly like the plant. The K changes nothing about the sound, which is the main practical advantage of the spelling.
Nicknames for Klover
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
- 2002
- Most girls named
- 2025197 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1173reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +71.3%197 in 2025, from 115
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.
Klover in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Clover in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, Tennessee.
Klovers among us
people named Klover are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 8,159 born in 2025 was named Klover
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Klover
- #1173
- Klover on the 2025 chart
- #374
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Klover went to 197 girls in 2025, but Clover and Khlover are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 794, which makes it the 374th most-given girls’ name of the year — 799 places above the chart.
- Clover578
- Klover197
- Khlover19
About 1 girl in 2,024 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 8,159 for Klover 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 Candie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Klover's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Candie climbed just as high around 1984, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Candie's path sketches the road Klover is walking now.
Klover is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Klover is headed
Klover is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 74% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Klover beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Klover in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Sounds like a word almost every English speaker already knows, so it is understood the first time it is said aloud.
- No pronunciation ambiguity at all — one reading only, in any accent.
- The K-initial pattern is a familiar American style, so the spelling looks deliberate rather than mistaken.
- A clear meaning parents can give in one word, tied to a plant word with a very long record in English.
- Clover with a C is the default spelling, so Klover will need spelling out over the phone, at the pharmacy, on forms — for life. Some families decide that trade is worth the look of the K; it is worth deciding on purpose.
- Almost everyone carrying this spelling is a small child right now. There is no generation of grown Klovers to show how it wears on an adult, a teacher, a resume.
- Clover is also a common name for cows and for dairy brands. It rarely causes trouble, but a child will probably hear the joke once.
- The name's American footing is concentrated in a few Southern states, so how familiar it seems can depend a good deal on where you live.
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Frequently asked
- How many Klovers are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Klover are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Klover?
- Klover is one of 3 recorded spellings. Clover is the more common one — 578 births in 2025 against 197 for Klover.
- How popular is the name Klover in 2025?
- Klover ranks #1173 among US girl names in 2025, with 197 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Klover?
- About 1 in every 8,159 US girls born in 2025 was named Klover — 197 in all.
- Will my child share the name Klover with classmates?
- Klover will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Klover
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