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Kloe vs Kloie

American parents have registered 3,300 Kloes since 1880, against 1,094 Kloies. Kloe is still ahead, with 35 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kloe against Kloie, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kloe Kloie

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

Kloe has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1991 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1998, when Kloe had 22 and Kloie had 11.

Side by side

  Kloe Kloie
Total US births 3,3001,094
Most in one year 267106
Babies in 2025 358
Estimated living today 3,3001,100
Median age today 1616
Peak year 20092009
Best rank 992nd girls1,956th girls
Rank in 2025 4,067th10,917th
First recorded 19911996
Girls / boys 3,300 / 01,094 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

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

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