Chloe Somers

Chloe (; ), 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 ', which relates to the colors yellow and green. 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.

was one of the many epithets of the goddess Demeter. 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. 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. It was also one of the most popular girls' names throughout the UK from 1995 to 2002. In 2013, it was the fourth- most popular name for baby girls in Australia.

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.

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 Dao (born 1972), fashion designer and television personality
* Chloë Hanslip (born 1987), British violinist
* 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
* Chloe Kelly (born 1998), English footballer
* Chloe Kim (born 2000), American snowboarder
* Chloé Lambert (born 1976). French actress
* 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)
* 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
* 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 film maker

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
* 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''

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Greek feminine given names
English feminine given names
Welsh feminine given names
Scottish feminine given names
Irish feminine given names
Epithets of Demeter