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Cloey vs Clovia

American parents have registered 1,918 Cloeys since 1880, against 100 Clovias. Cloey is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cloey against Clovia, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cloey Clovia

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

Of the 48 years in which either name was published, Cloey for 35 years and Clovia for 13 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Cloey Clovia
Total US births 1,918100
Most in one year 18322
Babies in 2025 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,90080
Median age today 1971
Peak year 20081949
Best rank 1,339th girls2,069th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942ndunranked
First recorded 19151949
Girls / boys 1,918 / 0100 / 0

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 Clovias alive today are over 71; half the Cloeys are over 19. That is 52 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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