girls:
241.7k births since 1880
#168 (97th percentile)
boys:
345 births since 1989
#4241 (7th percentile)
overall:
242k births since 1880
#331 (96th percentile)
The name Chloe is the #331 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 241,999 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #168 (97.1% percentile) for all time with 241,654 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,241 (7.5% percentile) for all time with 345 births since 1989.
Chloe has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1989 for boys).
The name Chloe has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Chloe reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 99.2% percentile (ranked #9) with 5,885 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 5,999 births per million (ranked 99.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Chloe ranks #25 for girls (97.5% percentile) with 3,407 births per million, which is 56.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Chloe reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 7.3% percentile (ranked #785) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 32 births per million (ranked 7.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chloe".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Chloe. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.4% confident that Chloe is pronounced as KLOH-ee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kloh, at 13.6% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K L OW1 IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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