Cloe

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Cloe: Recorded since 1989, its highest recorded position is #457, and it stood at #3,970 in 2022.

2registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
34years from first to last
#457highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#783
1997	#672
1998	#683
1999	#663
2000	#782
2001	#710
2002	#890
2003	#1325
2004	#1043
2005	#1500
2006	#1201
2007	#1296
2008	#995
2009	#1467
2010	#2235
2011	#3549
2012	#2717
2013	#2649
2014	#5691
2015	#4736
2016	#3214
2017	#2925
2018	#3985
2019	#4686
2021	#3961
2022	#3970

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 26 of the 27 years from 1996 to 2022.

In 2008: #862 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #995 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1989–2022 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1989
First recorded at #503 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1989 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1989–2008
Highest recorded position: #457 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1991 (recorded 1989–2008).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2022
Most recently recorded at #3970 among girls in England and Wales, in 2022.
England and Wales · Girls

Cloe appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 26 ranked years and 449 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1989.

Cloe across 2 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.

Cloe'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
England and Wales · Girls	#783 (1996)	#663 (1999)	#3970 (2022)	26 of 27	449 (1996–2022)	36 (1997)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#503 (1989)	#457 (1991)	#862 (2008)	7 of 20	22 (1989–2008)	4 (1991)

Cloe 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 Cloe in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	136	4 of 10	34
2000sbusiest	237	10 of 10	24
2010s	66	10 of 10	7
2020s	10	2 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 24 births a year.

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

Cloe 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 2 regions, from 1989 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #457 in Republic of Ireland in 1991.

Cloe'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
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2925	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2649	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1467	19	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#995	31	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1296	21	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1201	22	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1500	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1043	23	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1325	16	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#890	26	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#710	35	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#782	29	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#663	36	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#683	35	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#672	36	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#783	29	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	3	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#457	4	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#503	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1989 and 2022, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #457, first reached in 1991.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 36 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 7 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.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Shayan · #458, 30y
Zena · #456, 33y
Blaise · #459, 30y
Sayed · #459, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Genna · #456, 14y
Julieann · #456, 11y
Zena · #456, 33y
Lora · #467, 29y

Cloe was ranked #457 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1991. 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.

Cloe 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 Cloe without appearing here.

Cloe moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4686 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3970 and #5669.
Kristy Compare
In 2017 they stood at #5691 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3985 and #5666.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4686 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #5581.
Donna Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3985 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #4686 and #5591.

Moved ahead of Cloe

Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2649 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #5691 and #1628.
Cameron Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2649 and #4050 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #5691 and #3160.
Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2925 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3985 and #1711.
Jude Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2235 and #2392 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #3549 and #1438.

Moved the opposite way to Cloe

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Cloe went from #783 to #3970 while Ada went from #2683 to #36.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Cloe went from #783 to #3970 while Alma went from #2096 to #279.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Cloe went from #783 to #3970 while Alyssa went from #783 to #224.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Cloe went from #783 to #3970 while Amalie went from #2096 to #940.

Moved the same way as Cloe

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Cloe went from #783 to #3970 and Abigail from #21 to #128.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Cloe went from #783 to #3970 and Aimee from #70 to #1326.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Cloe went from #783 to #3970 and Aisling from #440 to #1621.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Cloe went from #783 to #3970 and Alex from #161 to #2178.

What's not yet available

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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 2 regions, from 1989 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #457 in Republic of Ireland in 1991. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Cloe

Cloe at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cloe across 2 official records

Cloe by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Cloe across 2 official records

Cloe by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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