The name Chloe in Greek means ‘flower’ or ‘fertility’. It was originally used as an epithet of the Greek goddess Demeter, in a sense the protector of the young seed. Other spellings include Chloë, Chlöe, or Chloé.
Chloe is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The first name Chloe is one of the top 100 most popular girls names in the US – currently at #17 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Chloe, accounting for approximately 0.50 % of all newborn girls. In the entire USA, approximately 230,258 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Chloe. That is 0.07 % of all living Americans.
The name Chloe in Greek means ‘flower’ or ‘fertility’. It was originally used as an epithet of the Greek goddess Demeter, in a sense the protector of the young seed. Other spellings include Chloë, Chlöe, or Chloé.
Did you know... that the first name Chloe and the common scientific prefix chloro- (e.g. chlorine and chloroplast) are derived from the same Greek root?
Chloé Grace Moretz (*1997)
Chloe Grace Moretz is an American actress who has appeared in a number of films and television series. She began her career at the age of 7 with small roles in television series and commercials. She had her first major role at the age of 9 in the 2005 film 'The Amityville Horror,' followed by many other roles in popular films, including 'Kick-Ass' (2010), 'Carrie' (2013) and 'Let Me In' (2010), and she has also done voice acting. Moretz has received several awards and accolades for her work as an actress, including several Young Artist Awards. In 2018, she was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Academy Awards each year.
Chloé Zhao (*1982)
Chinese film director, producer and screenwriter Chloe Zhao has worked primarily in the United States. She has worked on a few independent films and specializes in portraying rural and country characters. Her film 'Nomadland' (2020) had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and received very good reviews. The film has won several awards, including the Golden Lion, as well as Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Zhao, and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Frances McDormand.
Chloe Kim (*2000)
Chloe Kim is an American snowboarder. She has participated in numerous national and international snowboarding competitions and has won several medals throughout her career. She participated in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, where she won the gold medal in the halfpipe competition. At the age of 17, she was the youngest gold medalist in snowboarding at the Winter Olympics at the time. She also set a number of records, including the highest ever halfpipe snowboarding score in a competition and the highest ever halfpipe snowboarding score by a woman.
Chloe Dykstra (*1988)
Lara Croft (Tomb Raider), Aela the Huntress (Skyrim), GLaDOS (Portal), she has been them all as she is a cosplayer, model, and actress. She produced and hosted the web series 'Just Cos' for the Nerdist Industries YouTube channel and is a member of the SYFY show 'Heroes of Cosplay'. She also works as a freelance gaming journalist for various websites. In June 2018, Dykstra received media attention after writing an article on Medium detailing her alleged abuse by a former partner. Since the incident, Dykstra has continued to work in the entertainment industry and has also been an activist for women's rights and against sexual harassment and violence
When you hear the name Chloe, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Chloe? Are you also called Chloe? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
is a main belt asteroid discovered in 1895 by the French astronomer Auguste Charlois in Nice, it takes its name from the epithet of the Greek goddess Demeter.
has an unincorporated community called Chloe, and small towns by that name exist in Missouri and Louisiana.
There are a few places in the United States, that are called »Chloe«. You can find them in the states of Lousiana, Missouri, and West Virginia.
is the name of a large main-belt asteroid that is orbiting the sun.
»Hurricane Chloe« was a cyclonic storm in the 1967 Atlantic hurricane season. It lastet 17 days.
An 1875 oil painting by French academic painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre is called »Chloé«. It hangs in the Young and Jackson Hotel in Melbourne, Australia.
The name Chloe is as much a part of the DNA of the USA as the Constitution, the Capitol and the Superbowl: Chloe is one of the few girls names that have been given in the USA every year since the beginning of the name statistics, and thus since 1880. Of course, Chloe hasn't been equally popular in all 143 years - but it's just recently become especially popular. In 2010 it was even ranked number 9 in our SmartGenius name statistics, making it one of the most popular girls names in the entire United States.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Chloe was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022 the name Chloe was given a total of 6,445 times in the USA, ranking #19 on the list of the most popular girls names. It was least common in 1966 - back then only 15 expectant parents gave their child the name Chloe, ranking it #2,963 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics, so there were 2,962 other girl names given more often in 1966.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Chloe is one of them. However, Chloe is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Nevada seem to particularly fancy this name – the 1,654 women called Chloe who live here are 0,370% of all female residents and push their name up to #53, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Nevada.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Chloe is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Chloe and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Chloe, you can simply say:
Cat
Hat
Lion
Orange
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Chloe
Chloe
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
H
L
O
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
H
L
O
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Chloe sounds like this:
