Cleo

What Cleo means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Cleo yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,743 in 2015, #577 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Cleo?

US: Rising: up from #1743 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #242 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1907, when 325 girls got the name (#171 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 3,115 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 599 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 813 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (3.02 per 1,000 girls), MT (1.77 per 1,000 girls), UT (1.05 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Cleo is #577 in the US and #114 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 96.6% of US babies named Cleo were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kleo59 US · 10 E&W
• Clio25 US · 13 E&W
• Clea20 US · 7 E&W
• Klea10 US · 6 E&W
• Kleio10 US · 4 E&W
• Caley8 US
• Coley7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Cleo

Girls

• Theodora#725“God s Gift”^*
• Iris#61“rainbow”^*
• Ophelia#264possibly “help, aid, succour”^*
• Elena#42Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #106 in 2015, #42 in 2025. 5 letters, starting with a vowel
• Rhea#639Editor’s note Up from #994 in 2015 to #639 in 2025 in the US
• Athena#109Editor’s note Up from #157 in 2015 to #109 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Theo#82Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #405 in 2015, #82 in 2025
• Theodore#4Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #99 in 2015, #4 in 2025
• Leon#138“lion”^*
• Niko#325Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1962, with 5 babies
• Adonis#241Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #698 in 2015, #241 in 2025
• Ambrose#735“immortal, divine”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Greek, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Cleo’s. Rank is US 2025.