Cloe
Cloe was given to 62 girls in 2025, #2,758 among girls’ names; 3,927 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,610 Americans named Cloe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 16 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cloe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cloe mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cloe is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, an alternative spelling of Chloe.”
/ˈkloʊ.i/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cloe?
#2,758 among girls’ names, 2025
Cloe rose from #3,224 in 2015 to #2,758 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 28.6 to 38.6 per million.
300 babies in 2008, the peak
Cloe peaked in 2008, when 300 girls were given it, #914 among girls’ names. The 62 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,758 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,782 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,905 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,045 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,402 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,192 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,185 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,018 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,258 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,940 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #3,224 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,815 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,775 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,242 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 97 | #2,022 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 131 | #1,636 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 201 | #1,236 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 300 | #914 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 277 | #968 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 276 | #946 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 263 | #942 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 213 | #1,079 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 202 | #1,091 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 180 | #1,147 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 145 | #1,322 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 143 | #1,324 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 96 | #1,708 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 62 | #2,282 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,664 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,632 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,158 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,768 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,416 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,397 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,836 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,334 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,910 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,185 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,087 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,282 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,985 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,808 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,701 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,113 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,265 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,190 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,767 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,305 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,325 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,399 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,329 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,983 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,325 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,717 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,186 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,394 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,629 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,449 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,955 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,722 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,204 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,042 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,047 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,704 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,118 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,012 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,187 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,816 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,487 | 0.01 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,276 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,851 | 0.02 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,729 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,446 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,069 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,529 | 0.02 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,310 | 0.03 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,495 | 0.02 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,116 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,041 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,057 | 0.04 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,138 | 0.03 |
| 1883 | 5 | #950 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cloe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cloe has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 82 years of records.
Girls and boys named Cloe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cloe, and how old are they?
3,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 3,927 Americans ever recorded as Cloe. The median Cloe alive today is 20 years old; half are between 16 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 3,856 people named Cloe (3,834 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,320 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 21 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 213 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 676 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Cloe born?
The states with the most babies named Cloe are Texas, California and Florida, with 83% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #2,258 | 0.9× |
| California | 8 | #2,319 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,740 | 0.9× |
| New York | 5 | #2,162 | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cloe with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 63,687 babies since 1880, Cloe is the second most given (6.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 62 of their 1,272 babies (4.9%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cloe
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cloe and names like it
- Compare Cloe and KhloeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCloe peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cloe since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Cloe.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cloe alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.