Entry № 2020 · Greek origin

Chloe Chloe — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KLOH-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Young green shoot"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "young green shoot".

Chloe comes from the Greek Khloē (Χλόη), meaning the fresh green of new growth — the colour and quality of young grass, of leaves just unfolded. It was an epithet for Demeter, Greek goddess of the harvest, in her aspect as protector of new crops.

Chloe appears in the New Testament (1 Corinthians 1:11) and was used quietly in English-speaking countries from the seventeenth century. top 10 in the 2000s. Two soft syllables, a meaning of new beginnings.

Young green shoot — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Χλόη
Transliteration
Khloē
Pronunciation
/ ˈkloʊ.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chloe stands.

Chloe does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Chloes before her.

Real people
Chloé Zhao
Chinese filmmaker. Academy Award winner for Nomadland (2020), only the second woman to win Best Director.
born 1982
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality and businesswoman.
born 1984
In fiction
Chloe Sullivan
Character in the TV series Smallville.
The WB / The CW, 2001–2011

Names connected to Chloe.

The number behind Chloe.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Chloe reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.