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Chloe (;
[1]
Greek : Χλόη
[note 1] ), also spelled Chloë , Chlöe , or Chloé , is a feminine name meaning "blooming" or "fertility" in Greek. The name ultimately derives, through Greek, from the
Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰelh₃- , which relates to the colors yellow and green.
[2] [
citation needed ] The common scientific prefix chloro- (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.
Χλόη was one of the many
epithets of the goddess
Demeter .
[3] The name appears in the
New Testament , in
1 Corinthians 1:11 in the context of "the house of Chloe", a leading early Christian woman in
Corinth , Greece.
[4] The French spelling is
Chloé .
Popularity
The name was a popular
Ancient Greek girl's name (cf. the Ancient Greek novel
Daphnis and Chloe ) and remains a popular Greek name today.
It has been a very popular name in the United Kingdom since the early 1990s, peaking in popularity later in the 1990s and during the first decade of the 21st century.
In
Northern Ireland , Chloe was the most popular name for newborn girls from 1997 to 2002, followed by
Emma in 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 for
newborn girls of Asian descent in the
American state of
Virginia in 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. The United States Social Security Administration noted 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]
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
Chloe Bailey (born 1998), known mononymously as Chlöe, an American singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and part of the duo
Chloe 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 Fineman (born 1988), American actress, writer, and comedian
Chloé Georges (born 1980), a French acrobatic skier
Chloé Graftiaux (1987–2010), a Belgian sport climber
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
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 of
Toni 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 movie
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Chloe, in Atom Egoyan's 2009 film
Chloe
Chloe, a character in the play
Daphnis and Chloe by ancient Greek novelist Longus
Chloe, fictional character from the movie
Deep Impact
Chloe, fictional character from
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
Chloe, the heroine of the poem
The Fable of the Bees by Bernard Mandeville
Chloe, a character in
Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian
Chloé, a character in Éric Rohmer's 1972 film
Love in the Afternoon
Chloé, a character in the French television series
Madeline
Chloe , in the Noir anime television series
Chloe, in the operetta
Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach
Chloe, in the comic opera
Princess Ida by Gilbert and Sullivan
Chloe, in the novel
Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson
Chloe, in the novel
S.N.U.F.F. by Victor Pelevin
Chloe, fictional character from the TV series
The Tribe
Aunt Chloe, in the novel
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe;
Lucky Chloe , fictional character from the video game series Tekken
Chloe , co-protagonist of
Glitter Force
Chloe Armstrong , in the television series Stargate Universe
Chloe Beale, from the
Pitch Perfect movie franchise
Chloé Bourgeois (character) , from the animated TV series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
Chloe Branagh, a character from
Young Dracula
Chloe Brennan , in the soap opera One Life to Live
Chloe Cammeniti, in the Australian soap opera
Neighbours
Chloe Carmichael, a new fictional character from
The Fairly OddParents
Chloe Carter , on Harper's Island
Chloe Cerise , in the Japanese anime
Pokémon
Chlo Charles , in the BBC television series Waterloo Road
Chloe Corbin, in PBS Kids Sprout programme
Chloe's Closet
Chloe Decker , in the television series
Lucifer
Chloe Flan, a character from
Sabrina: The Animated Series
Chloe Frazer , from the video game Uncharted franchise
Khloe Gomez, a character from
He's Into Her
Chloe Harris , from Emmerdale
Chloe James, from
Dog With a Blog
Chloe Jones, in the television series
A Country Practice ;
Chloe King, in the 2011 American television series
The Nine Lives of Chloe King
Chloe Lane , in the television series Days Of Our Lives
Chloe Mitchell , in the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
Chloe O'Brian , in the television series 24
Chloe Payne, in the television series
Mercy
Chloe Park, in the television series
We Bare Bears
Chloe Pig, in the British television series
Peppa Pig
Chloe Price , fictional character from the video game
Life Is Strange
Chloe Pye, a fictional actress and dancer in the 1937 mystery novel,
Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham
Chlöe Rice, a character in the Netflix series
13 Reasons Why
Chloe Richards , in the Australian soap Home and Away
Chloe Saunders, in
Kelley Armstrong 's Darkest Powers trilogy
Chloe Simon, in Disney's
102 Dalmatians
Chloe Steele , in the Left Behind series
Chloe Stilton , in the animated Horseland series
Chloe Sullivan , in the television series Smallville
Chloe Talbot , in the television series The Simpsons
Chloe the Topaz Fairy, in the book franchise
Rainbow Magic
Chloe Valens, in the video game
Tales of Legendia
Chloe Wheeler, in the television series
Coming of Age
See also
Notes
References
^ Forvo, Команда.
"произношение Chloe: Как произносится Chloe, язык: английский" . forvo.com .
^
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ǵʰelh₃ - - Wiktionary" . en.wiktionary.org . Retrieved 2020-04-14 .
^
χλόη in
Liddell, Henry George ;
Scott, Robert (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon , revised and augmented throughout by
Jones, Sir Henry Stuart , with the assistance of McKenzie, Roderick. Oxford: Clarendon Press. In the
Perseus 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 from
the original (PDF) on 29 September 2006. Retrieved 14 February 2008 . 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. Retrieved July 9, 2010 .
^
"Australia's 100 most popular baby names" . Kidspot . April 2, 2013. Archived from
the original on January 10, 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-10 .
^
"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.
ISSN
0190-8286 .
OCLC
1330888409 .