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Cloe vs Cloyse

American parents have registered 3,927 Cloes since 1880, against 20 Cloyses. Cloe is still ahead, with 62 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cloe Cloyse

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 82 years in which either name was published, Cloe for 80 years and Cloyse for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Cloe Cloyse
Total US births 3,92720
Most in one year 3008
Babies in 2025 62under 5
Estimated living today 3,6003
Median age today 1991
Peak year 20081933
Best rank 913th girls2,738th boys
Rank in 2025 2,751stunranked
First recorded 18831933
Girls / boys 3,922 / 50 / 20

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 Cloyses alive today are over 91; half the Cloes are over 19. That is 72 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: Cloe and Cloyse.