Entry № 2106 · Greek origin

Cleo Cleo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KLEE-oh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Glory, pride"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "glory, pride".

Cleo is a bright, economical short form of Cleopatra, the Greek name meaning "glory of the father," borne most famously by the last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt.

Glory — short, chic and quietly regal.

The name in its native script.

Κλεώ
Transliteration
Kleṓ
Pronunciation
/ ˈkliː.oʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cleo stands.

Cleo 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.

Cleos before her.

Real people
Cleo Laine
British jazz singer.
born 1927
In fiction
Cleopatra
Egyptian queen, the namesake.
Ancient Egypt

Names connected to Cleo.

The number behind Cleo.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cleo reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.