Chloe
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 Demetergoddess of the harvest, who had the epithet Chloe | |
| Pronunciation | /ˈkloʊi/KLOH-ee French:[kloe] Greek pronunciation:[ˈxlo.i] |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Greek |
| Meaning | EpithetofDemeter,referring to young, green foliage or shoots of plants |
Chloe(/ˈkloʊi/;[1]Greek:Χλόη[note 1]), also spelledChloë,Chlöe,orChloé,is a feminine name meaning "blooming" or "fertility" in Greek. The name ultimately derives, through Greek, from theProto-Indo-Europeanroot*ǵʰelh₃-,which relates to the colors yellow and green.[2][citation needed]The common scientific prefixchloro-(e.g. chlorine and chloroplast) derives from the same Greek root. In Greek the word refers to the young, green foliage or shoots of plants in spring.
Χλόηwas one of the manyepithetsof the goddessDemeter.[3]The name appears in theNew Testament,in1 Corinthians 1:11in the context of "the house of Chloe", a leading early Christian woman inCorinth,Greece.[4]The French spelling isChloé.
Popularity
The name was a popularAncient Greekgirl's name (cf. the Ancient Greek novelDaphnis and Chloe) and remains a popular Greek name today.
It has been a very popular name in theUnited Kingdomsince the early 1990s, peaking in popularity later in the 1990s and during the first decade of the 21st century.
InNorthern Ireland,Chloewas the most popular name for newborn girls from 1997 to 2002, followed byEmmain 2003.[5]It was also one of the most popular girls' names throughout the UK from 1995 to 2002.[6]In 2013, it was the fourth-most popular name for baby girls in Australia.[7]
Chloe was among the five most popular names fornewborn girls of Asian descentin theAmericanstate ofVirginiain 2022.[8]It has ranked among the top one hundred names for newborn American girls nationally since 1998, peaking in 2009 and 2010 when it was the ninth most popular name given to girls. It was the twenty-fourth most popular name for American girls nationally in 2021.[9]The name is occasionally misspelled as “Chole”. TheUnited States Social Security Administrationnoted that a number of parents of girls initially named “Chole” on their birth certificates had filed to correct the spelling to “Chloe” between 2017 and 2022.[10]
In 2022, it was the sixth most popular name given to girls in Canada.[11]
People
- Chloë (Australian singer)(Chloë Stafford), Australian singer
- Chloë Agnew(born 1989), Irish singer and the youngest member of Celtic Woman
- Chloe Alper(born 1981), English singer and bass player for the band Pure Reason Revolution
- Chloë Annett(born 1971), British actress
- Chloe Ashcroft(born 1942), British TV presenter
- Chloé Aurard(born 1999), French professional ice hockey player
- Chloe Bailey(born 1998), known mononymously as Chlöe, an American singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and part of the duoChloe x Halle
- Chloe Bennet(born 1992), Chinese-American actress and singer
- Chloe Bridges(born 1991), American actress, singer and pianist
- Chloe Brockett(born 2000), English television personality
- Chloe Cherry(born 1997), American actress
- Chloe Dao(born 1972), fashion designer and television personality
- Chloe Dallimore(b. 1975?), Australian actor, singer and dancer
- Chloe Dalton(born 1993), Australian professional footballer, rugby player and basketballer
- Chloe Domont(born 1987), American television and film writer and director
- Chloë Duckworth,British archaeological scientist and reader
- Chloë Farro(born 2003), Aruban swimmer
- Chloe Feoranzo(born 1992), America musician
- Chloe Ferry(born 1995), English television personality
- Chloe Fineman(born 1988), American actress, writer, and comedian
- Chloe Flower(born 1981), American composer, writer, producer and classical pianist
- Chloë Fox(born 1971), Australian politician
- Chloë Foy,British singer-songwriter
- Chloé Frammery,French-Swiss math teacher, activist, vlogger, and lecturer
- Chloe Franks(born 1963), British actress
- Chloé Georges(born 1980), a French acrobatic skier
- Chloe Gong(born 1998), New Zealand writer
- Chloe Goodman(born 1993), British model and television personality
- Chloé Graftiaux(1987–2010), a Belgian sport climber
- Chloe Grant(born 2006), British racing driver
- Chloë Hanslip(born 1987), British violinist
- Chloé Hayden(born 1997), Australian actress and author
- Chloé Hollings,French-Australian actress
- Chloe Hooper(born 1973), Australian author
- Chlöe Howl(born 4 March 1995), British singer-songwriter
- Chloe Ing(born 1998), Singaporean figure skater
- Chloé Isaac(born 1991), Canadian synchronized swimmer
- Chloe Isleta(born 1998), Filipino-American swimmer
- Chloe Jackson(born 1996), American professional basketball player
- Chloe Johnson(born 1989), American television personality, beauty pageant title holder, model, dancer and community leader
- Chloe Jones(1975–2005), American model and pornographic actress
- Khloé Alexandra Kardashian,American reality TV star
- Chloé Katz(born 1986), an American figure skater
- Chloe Kelly(born 1998), English footballer
- Chloe Kim(born 2000), American snowboarder
- Chloé Lambert(born 1976). French actress
- Chloe Latimer(born 1996), Scottish singer and songwriter
- Chloé Leriche,Canadian filmmaker
- Chloe Rose Lattanzi(born 1986), American actress and singer
- Chloe Logarzo(born 1994), Australian footballer
- Chloe Lowery(born 1987), American singer
- Chloe Lukasiak(born 2001), American dancer and actress
- Chloe Marshall(born 1991), British plus-size model
- Chloe Maxmin,American politician
- Chloe Meecham(born 1999), South African water polo player
- Chloë Grace Moretz(born 1997), American actress
- Chloe Moriondo(born 2002), American singer-songwriter and YouTuber
- Chloe Moss(born 1976), British playwright
- Chloe Ann O'Neil(born 1943), New York politician
- Chloe Rogers(born 1985), English field hockey player
- Chloe Saavedra(born 1994), founding member of the music group Chaos Chaos (formerly Smoosh)
- Chloé Sainte-Marie(born 1962), a French Canadian actress and singer
- Chloë Sevigny(born 1974), American actress
- Chloe Smith(born 1982), British Conservative Party politician
- Chloe Smith (musician),American folk musician and activist
- Chloe Sutton(born 1992), American swimmer
- Chlöe Swarbrick(born 1994), New Zealand politician and entrepreneur
- Chloe Temtchine,American singer-songwriter
- Chloe Ting(born 1986), Australian YouTuber
- Chloé Wary(born 1995), French comics writer
- Chloe Webb(born 1956), American actress
- Chloe Ardelia Wofford, birth name ofToni Morrison(1931–2019), American author, editor and professor
- Chloé Zhao(born 1982), Chinese filmmaker
Fictional characters
- Chloe, in Mozart's song "An Chloe"
- Chloe, a chihuahua in the movieBeverly Hills Chihuahua
- Chloe, fictional dalmatian character in the television series,Bluey
- Chloe, in Atom Egoyan's 2009 filmChloe
- Chloe, a character in the playDaphnis and Chloeby ancient Greek novelist Longus
- Chloe, fictional character from the movieDeep Impact
- Chloe, fictional character fromDon't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
- Chloe, the heroine of the poemThe Fable of the Beesby Bernard Mandeville
- Chloe, a character inFroth on the Daydreamby Boris Vian
- Chloé, a character in Éric Rohmer's 1972 filmLove in the Afternoon
- Chloé, a character in the French television seriesMadeline
- Chloe,in theNoiranime television series
- Chloe, in the operettaOrpheus in the Underworldby Jacques Offenbach
- Chloe, in the comic operaPrincess Idaby Gilbert and Sullivan
- Chloe, in the novelSleepoversby Jacqueline Wilson
- Chloe, in the novelS.N.U.F.F.by Victor Pelevin
- Chloe, fictional character from the TV seriesThe Tribe
- Aunt Chloe, in the novelUncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher Stowe;
- Lucky Chloe,fictional character from the video game seriesTekken
- Chloe,co-protagonist ofGlitter Force
- Chloe Armstrong,in the television seriesStargate Universe
- Chloe Atkinson,in the television series,Emmerdale
- Chloe Beale, from thePitch Perfectmovie franchise
- Chloé Bourgeois (character),from the animated TV seriesMiraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
- Chloe Branagh, a character fromYoung Dracula
- Chloe Brennan,in the soap operaOne Life to Live
- Chloe Cammeniti, in the Australian soap operaNeighbours
- Chloe Carter,onHarper's Island
- Chloe Cerise,in the Japanese animePokémon
- Chlo Charles,in the BBC television seriesWaterloo Road
- Chloe Carmichael,in the cartoon,The Fairly OddParents
- Chloe Corbin, in PBS Kids Sprout programmeChloe's Closet
- Chloe Decker,in the television seriesLucifer
- Chloe Flan, a character fromSabrina: The Animated Series
- Chloe Frazer,from the video gameUnchartedfranchise
- Khloe Gomez, a character fromHe's Into Her
- Chloe Harris,fromEmmerdale
- Chloe James, fromDog With a Blog
- Chloe Jones, in the television seriesA Country Practice;
- Chloe King, in the 2011 American television seriesThe Nine Lives of Chloe King
- Chloe Lane,in the television seriesDays Of Our Lives
- Chloe Mitchell,in the American soap operaThe Young and the Restless
- Chloe O'Brian,in the television series24
- Chloe Payne, in the television seriesMercy
- Chloe Park, in the television seriesWe Bare Bears
- Chloe Pig, in the British television seriesPeppa Pig
- Chloe Price,fictional character from the video gameLife Is Strange
- Chloe Pye, a fictional actress and dancer in the 1937 mystery novel,Dancers in Mourningby Margery Allingham
- Chlöe Rice, a character in the Netflix series13 Reasons Why
- Chloe Richards,in the Australian soapHome and Away
- Chloe Saunders, inKelley Armstrong's Darkest Powers trilogy
- Chloe Simon, in Disney's102 Dalmatians
- Chloe Steele,in theLeft Behindseries
- Chloe Stilton,in the animatedHorselandseries
- Chloe Sullivan,in the television seriesSmallville
- Chloe Talbot,in the television seriesThe Simpsons
- Chloe the Topaz Fairy, in the book franchiseRainbow Magic
- Chloe Valens, in the video gameTales of Legendia
- Chloe Voyle,from the television series,Ackley Bridge
- Chloe Wheeler, in the television seriesComing of Age
See also
Notes
- ^Ancient Greek:Chlóē,pronounced[kʰló.ɛː]
Modern Greek:Chlói,pronounced[ˈxlo.i]
References
- ^Forvo, Команда."произношение Chloe: Как произносится Chloe, язык: английский".forvo.
- ^"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ǵʰelh₃- - Wiktionary ".en.wiktionary.org.Retrieved2020-04-14.
- ^χλόηinLiddell, Henry George;Scott, Robert(1940)A Greek–English Lexicon,revised and augmented throughout byJones, Sir Henry Stuart,with the assistance of McKenzie, Roderick. Oxford: Clarendon Press. In thePerseus Digital Library,Tufts University.
- ^1 Corinthians 1:11
- ^"Jack and Emma were the most popular first names in Northern Ireland in 2003"(PDF)(Press release).Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.2 January 2004. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 29 September 2006.Retrieved14 February2008.
Jack and Emma were the most popular first names given to children whose births were registered in Northern Ireland in 2003
- ^"Mohammed enters top boys' names".BBC News.January 5, 2005.RetrievedJuly 9,2010.
- ^"Australia's 100 most popular baby names".Kidspot.April 2, 2013. Archived fromthe originalon January 10, 2014.Retrieved2014-01-10.
- ^"Virginia Department of Health's Office of Vital Records Announces Top Fifteen Baby Names of 2022, Other Interesting Virginia Birth Data".23 January 2023.
- ^"Popularity for the name Chloe - Behind the Name".
- ^Andrew Van Dam (2022-08-12)."The most-regretted baby names, and more!".The Washington Post.Washington, D.C.ISSN0190-8286.OCLC1330888409.
- ^"Table 17-10-0147-01 First names at birth by sex at birth, selected indicators (Number)".Statistics Canada.Retrieved2024-08-25.
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