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Kloey vs Klover

American parents have registered 1,660 Kloeys since 1880, against 765 Klovers. But in 2025 it was Klover that was commoner, 207 babies to 13.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kloey against Klover, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kloey Klover

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 30 years in which either name was published, Kloey for 23 years and Klover for 7 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kloey Klover
Total US births 1,660765
Most in one year 152207
Babies in 2025 13207
Estimated living today 1,600760
Median age today 162
Peak year 20092025
Best rank 1,502nd girls1,173rd girls
Rank in 2025 7,885th1,173rd
First recorded 19962002
Girls / boys 1,660 / 0742 / 23

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 Kloeys alive today are over 16; half the Klovers are over 2. That is 14 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.

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