Khloe

What Khloe means

Variant of Chloe, meaning “young green shoot”

spelling variant of Chloe || Borrowed from Ancient Greek χλόη (khlóē, “young green shoot”), an epithet of goddess Demeter.

Source: Wiktionary, “Khloe” (revision 81049260) and “Chloe” (revision 93670174), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Khloe?

US: Falling: down from #101 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #437 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2010, when 5,412 girls got the name (#42 that year). First in the US records in 1989.

How common

• About 1 in 1,399 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 11,513 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 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 MS (4.04 per 1,000 girls), LA (1.95 per 1,000 girls), GA (1.7 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Khloe is #272 in the US and #1407 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Khloe were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Khloee31 US
• Khole21 US
• Khloey9 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 Khloe

Girls

• Genesis#66“creation, beginning, origin”^*
• Zoey#69Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1967, with 6 babies
• Gia#287Editor’s note Up from #372 in 2015 to #287 in 2025 in the US
• Sophia#5“wisdom”^*
• Penelope#22possibly “duck”^*
• Lydia#92“the region of Lydia”^*

For a brother

• Damian#109“to tame”^*
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*
• Xander#259Diminutive of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Zander#396Diminutive of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Pierce#505Form of Peter, meaning “stone, rock”^*
• Leonidas#510“son of Leon / lion”^*

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 Khloe’s. Rank is US 2025.