girls:
811 births since 1894
#4905 (14th percentile)
boys:
25 births since 1914
#4561 (0th percentile)
overall:
836 births since 1894
#6903 (11th percentile)
The name Clio is the #6,903 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 836 recorded births since 1894. This represents the 10.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,905 (14.2% percentile) for all time with 811 births since 1894. For boys, it ranks #4,561 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 25 births since 1914.
Clio first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1894 (1894 for girls and 1914 for boys). Birth data for Clio is available in 61 out of the 130 years between 1894 and 2023 (60 years for girls and 4 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Clio has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Clio reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #928) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 26 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Clio ranks #926 for girls (2.2% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 58.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Clio reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #519) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1933.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clio".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Cleo. View all variations of Cleo.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Clio", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 6 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Cleo" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Cleo..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Clio. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.0% confident that Clio is pronounced as KLEE-oh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KLAI-oh, at 34.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Clio? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Clio. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Clio, please vote using the thumbs up button.
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 IY1 OW0) 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.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker