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Chloe vs Khloe

American parents have registered 254,741 Chloes since 1880, against 49,943 Khloes. Chloe is still ahead, with 6,210 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Chloe against Khloe, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Chloe Khloe

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Chloe has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Chloe had 11,778 and Khloe had 5,420.

Side by side

  Chloe Khloe
Total US births 254,74149,943
Most in one year 11,9365,420
Babies in 2025 6,2101,149
Estimated living today 248,00050,000
Median age today 1612
Peak year 20092010
Best rank 9th girls42nd girls
Rank in 2025 23rd272nd
First recorded 18801989
Girls / boys 254,389 / 35249,923 / 20

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Chloes alive today are over 16; half the Khloes are over 12. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Chloe Khloe
France 167,330 Chloé575 Khloé
England and Wales 111,7651,282
Scotland 13,091275
Ireland 12,470209
Italy 11,149167
Belgium 11,059 Chloé41 Khloé
New Zealand 5,42898
Northern Ireland 4,54098
Switzerland 3,373 Chloé46 Khloé
Poland 3344 Khloé

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Chloe and Khloe.