Entry № 5540 · Greek origin

Klio Klio — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KLEE-oh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"To celebrate, the muse of history"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "to celebrate, the muse of history".

Klio (Κλειώ) — usually anglicized as Clio — is the Greek muse of history. The name comes from kleō, meaning "to celebrate" or "to make famous."

Klio is rare but distinctive — chosen by literary and historical families.

The muse of history.

The name in its native script.

Κλειώ
Transliteration
Kleiṓ
Pronunciation
/ ˈkliː.oʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Klio stands.

Klio 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.

Klios before her.

Real people

In fiction
Klio
Greek muse of history.
Greek mythology

Names connected to Klio.

The number behind Klio.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Klio reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.