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Clodagh vs Cloey

American parents have registered 1,918 Cloeys since 1880, against 209 Clodaghs. But in 2025 it was Clodagh that was commoner, 9 babies to 5.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Clodagh Cloey

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 35 years in which either name was published, Cloey for 30 years and Clodagh for 5 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Clodagh Cloey
Total US births 2091,918
Most in one year 15183
Babies in 2025 95
Estimated living today 2101,900
Median age today 1219
Peak year 20092008
Best rank 8,058th girls1,339th girls
Rank in 2025 10,107th14,942nd
First recorded 19981915
Girls / boys 209 / 01,918 / 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 Cloeys alive today are over 19; half the Clodaghs are over 12. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Clodagh Cloey
England and Wales 55010

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.

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