Cleo

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Cleo: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Cleo: Recorded since 1974, its highest recorded position is #82, and it stood at #273 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
72times a registrar ranked it
52years from first to last
#82highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#671
1997	#536
1998	#589
1999	#703
2000	#527
2001	#372
2002	#463
2003	#435
2004	#483
2005	#545
2006	#564
2007	#496
2008	#475
2009	#471
2010	#452
2011	#486
2012	#468
2013	#358
2014	#403
2015	#242
2016	#227
2017	#187
2018	#192
2019	#191
2020	#180
2021	#138
2022	#132
2023	#135
2024	#129

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 29 of the 52 years from 1974 to 2025.

In 2024: #129 among girls in England and Wales, #209 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #230 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1974–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1974
First recorded at #490 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1974 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded2021–2023
Highest recorded position: #82 among girls in New Zealand, in 2023 (recorded 2021–2023).
New Zealand · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #273 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Cleo appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1974, and has registered 220 births with the name.

Cleo across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Cleo's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#490 (1974)	#209 (2024)	#273 (2025)	29 of 52	220 (1974–2025)	21 (2017)
England and Wales · Girls	#671 (1996)	#129 (2024)	#129 (2024)	29 of 29	4,419 (1996–2024)	383 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#343 (2001)	#209 (2023)	#209 (2023)	8 of 23	39 (2001–2023)	8 (2023)
New Zealand · Girls	#91 (2021)	#82 (2023)	#82 (2023)	2 of 3	94 (2021–2023)	49 (2023)

Cleo by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Cleo in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	161	4 of 10	40
2000s	729	10 of 10	73
2010s	1,764	10 of 10	176
2020sbusiest	1,765	5 of 10	353

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 353 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2014 and 2015, when recorded births rose by 98, from 108 to 206.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Cleo appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1974 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #82 in New Zealand in 2023.

Cleo's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#129	376	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#135	370	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#132	383	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#138	359	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#180	277	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#191	257	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#192	277	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#187	285	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#227	228	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#242	206	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#403	108	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#358	127	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#468	96	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#486	88	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#452	92	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#471	87	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#475	84	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#496	78	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#564	62	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#545	61	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#483	70	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#435	80	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#463	67	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#372	87	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#527	53	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#703	33	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#589	44	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#536	49	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#671	35	High	Verified
2023	New South Wales, Australia	female	#87	77	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	female	#82	49	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	female	#91	45	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#209	8	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#237	7	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#281	5	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#361	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#306	5	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#343	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#273	15	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#209	21	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#339	11	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#304	14	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#390	10	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#375	10	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#347	12	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#474	8	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#233	21	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#390	11	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#462	9	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#660	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#612	6	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	7	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#404	10	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	4	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#465	4	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#417	5	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	3	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#492	3	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#519	3	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#542	3	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#467	4	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	3	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#490	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#230	16	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1974 and 2025, ranked in 39 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #82, first reached in 2023.

It held a top-100 place in 2 years.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 383 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 50 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Clementine · #175, 30y
Clemmie · #936, 11y
Cleopatra · #1081, 27y
Clifford · #142, 51y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Travis · #77, 34y
Mikaela · #90, 34y
August · #71, 39y
Maxwell · #71, 40y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Abel · #82, 43y
Jaime · #82, 36y
Haley · #81, 37y
Renae · #83, 34y

Cleo was ranked #82 in New Zealand · Girls in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Cleo and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Cleo without appearing here.

Cleo moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2000 they stood at #527 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #372 and #871.
Lorraine Compare
In 1996 they stood at #671 and #661 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #536 and #1015.
Pauline Compare
In 2015 they stood at #798 and #695 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #390 and #868.
Tracey Compare
In 2006 they stood at #677 and #576 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2007 that had become #404 and #842.

Moved ahead of Cleo

Maisie Compare
In 2009 they stood at #404 and #431 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2010 that had become #555 and #123.
Riley Compare
In 2013 they stood at #660 and #747 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #661 and #264.
Violet Compare
In 2004 they stood at #483 and #607 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #545 and #273.
Fiadh Compare
In 2009 they stood at #404 and #505 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2010 that had become #555 and #319.

Moved the opposite way to Cleo

Audrey Compare
Between 1974 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cleo went from #490 to #273 while Audrey went from #54 to #885.
Eileen Compare
Between 1974 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cleo went from #490 to #273 while Eileen went from #45 to #443.
Margaret Compare
Between 1974 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cleo went from #490 to #273 while Margaret went from #3 to #135.
Maria Compare
Between 1974 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cleo went from #490 to #273 while Maria went from #35 to #74.

Moved the same way as Cleo

Abigail Compare
Between 1974 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cleo went from #490 to #273 and Abigail from #428 to #115.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1974 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cleo went from #490 to #273 and Alexandra from #271 to #141.
Alice Compare
Between 1974 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cleo went from #490 to #273 and Alice from #146 to #41.
Amy Compare
Between 1974 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Cleo went from #490 to #273 and Amy from #264 to #138.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1974 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #82 in New Zealand in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Cleo

Cleo at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cleo across 4 official records

Cleo by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Cleo appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Cleo

Cleo and the names beside it

Cleo moved ahead of

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Cleo at a glance

Cleo across 4 official records

Cleo by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Cleo appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Cleo

Cleo and the names beside it

Cleo moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Cleo

Moved the opposite way to Cleo

Moved the same way as Cleo