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Cloey

Gender
Girl
Say it
KLOH-ee
Origin
Greek
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Cloey is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “green shoot”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

What does Cloey mean?

Greek: phonetic spelling of Chloe

“green shoot”

Chloe was an epithet of the Greek goddess Demeter and appears in Saint Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians.

Is Cloey a girl's or a boy's name?

Cloey is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Cloey in the US?

Rank in 2025
#14,937among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Cloey, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2008, with 183 girls. It first appears in the records in 1915.

2025 had fewer girls named Cloey than any year since 1994.

Half of all the girls named Cloey in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.

1915Busiest: 183 in 20082025
Cloey in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
20247#12,156
20237#12,192
202214#7,626
20219#10,287
202010#9,541
20197#12,442
201812#8,612
201723#5,515
201629#4,733
201523#5,651
201434#4,267
201348#3,313
201250#3,266
201172#2,510
201099#2,010
2009153#1,492
2008183#1,339
2007152#1,517
2006160#1,415
2005150#1,425
2004117#1,653
2003114#1,675
2002107#1,706
2001112#1,626
200083#1,994
199944#2,988
199835#3,423
199713#6,839
199610#8,127
199511#7,509
19940–
19935#13,435
19920–
19919#8,580
19905#12,952
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Names like Cloey

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Cloey: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cloey, updated 20 October 2026.