Chloe

See also: Chloé, Chloë, and Chlöe

English

Alternative forms

• Chloeigh, Chloey, Chloé, Chloë, Chlöe, Cloe, Khloe, Khloeigh, Khloé, Kloeigh, Kloey

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χλόη (khlóē, “young green shoot”), an epithet of goddess Demeter.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkləʊ.i/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkloʊ.i/

  • Audio (Connecticut):

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈkləʉ.i/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈklɐʉ.i/
• Rhymes: -əʊi

Proper noun

Chloe (plural Chloes)

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 1:11:
     :

     For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Strephon and Chloe:

     Of Chloe all the town has rung; / By ev'ry Size of Poets sung. / So beautiful a Nymph appears / But once in Twenty Thousand Years.

   • 1981, William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa, H.Hamilton, →ISBN, page 24:

     Before he had met this one, Morgan had assumed that people called Chloe were either the neurotic brilliant daughters of Oxbridge dons or else silly screaming debutantes.

   • 2009 April 25, “Meet Number 16 Bus Shelter”, in Austin Daily Herald‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 July 2025:

     New Zealand registration officials apparently blocked other questionable names in the past, including Fish and Chips and Sex Fruit, but allowed others, such as Number 16 Bus Shelter and Violence. […] I’m fine with the Gavins and the Masons and the Chloes, but the Poppy Honeys and the Banjos and the Sex Fruits simply have to go.

Derived terms

• Chlark
• Chlollie
• drunk as Chloe

Translations

female given name

• Arabic: كلوي f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克洛伊 (Kèluòyī)

• Esperanto: Kloeo
• French: Chloé (fr) f
• Greek: Χλόη (el) f (Chlói)

  Ancient Greek: Χλόη f (Khlóē)

• Italian: Cloe (it) f
• Japanese: クロエ (Kuroe)
• Korean: 클로에 (Keullo'e)
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} کلویی (kloyi)
• Polish: Chloe (pl) f
• Portuguese: Cloé f
• Russian: Хло́я (ru) f (Xlója) (cognate)
• Spanish: Cloé f
• Thai: โคลอี

Anagrams

• Cohle, HELOC, c-hole, chole, chole-, loche

Cebuano

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek χλόη (khlóē)

English Chloeder.

Cebuano Chloe

Derived from English Chloe, from Ancient Greek χλόη (khlóē, “young green shoot”).

Proper noun

Chloe

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Chloe.

French

Proper noun

Chloe f

1. alternative form of Chloé: a female given name, variant of Chloé, equivalent to English Chloe

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Chloē.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxlɔ.ɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔɛ
• Syllabification: Chlo‧e

Proper noun

Chloe f (indeclinable)

1. (rare) a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Chloe

Further reading

• “Chloe”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Chloe.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈklowi/ [ˈk̠loː.wɪ]
• Rhymes: -owi
• Syllabification: Chlo‧e

Proper noun

Chloe (Baybayin spelling ᜃ᜔ᜎᜓᜏᜒ)

1. a female given name from English