girls:
32.5k births since 1880
#777 (86th percentile)
boys:
11.5k births since 1880
#1075 (77th percentile)
overall:
44k births since 1880
#1170 (85th percentile)
The name Cleo is the #1,170 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 44,035 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 84.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #777 (86.4% percentile) for all time with 32,548 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #1,075 (76.6% percentile) for all time with 11,487 births since 1880.
Cleo has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Cleo has been given predominantly to girls, with 73.9% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 95.1% of babies named Cleo were girls.
For girls, Cleo reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 69.2% percentile (ranked #177) with 950 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 963 births per million (ranked 57.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Cleo ranks #514 for girls (45.8% percentile) with 279 births per million, which is 29.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Cleo reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 51.3% percentile (ranked #261) with 350 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 396 births per million (ranked 51.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Cleo ranks #891 for boys (2.2% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 3.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cleo".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Cleo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Cleo is pronounced as KLEE-oh, which has 2 syllables.
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