unisex name

Kleo

  • Gender Unisex
  • Letters 4
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 832

Scotland

#932

2020 births

Kleo is a unisex name. It is given to both girls and boys — about 90% of recorded births with this name are girls. In 2025 it was given to 65 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Peaked in 2024, when 65 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 51,007 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 2005.

Kleo over time

Births per decade in the United States, 2000s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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Births named Kleo by decade in the United States
Decade Births
2000s 5
2010s 111
2020s (to 2025) 310

How popular is Kleo?

In 2025, Kleo was given to 65 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Kleo is used

Scotland #932 3 in 2020
France as Kléo #1,524 25 in 2025
Canada #2,638 8 in 2024
England & Wales #2,735 10 in 2025
United States #2,881 65 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Kleo is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Kléo Kléo is Kleo written with an acute accent in France, and the spelling parents there overwhelmingly choose: it ranks #1,524 in France, against #6,813 for Kleo. 130

Names that peaked alongside Kleo

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Kleo also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Kleo over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Kleo

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Kleo — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Kleo

How popular is the name Kleo?

In 2025, Kleo was given to 65 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Kleo a girl's or a boy's name?

Kleo is used for both girls and boys. About 90% of recorded births with this name are girls.

When was Kleo most popular?

Kleo peaked in 2024, when 65 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Kleo a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Kleo currently ranks #1,524 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.