How rare is the name Cleo?

11,057 people in the United States have the first name Cleo, about 1 in 27,316. It ranks #2,319 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CLEO

#2,319

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
11,057
About
1 in 27,316
This common or more
79.4%
Who bears it

Of the 11,057 people named Cleo, 54.8% reported their origin as White, 28.4% as Black and 8.1% as Hispanic or Latino. 75.2% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Cleo peaked in 1920, when 1,399 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1920
Births that year
1,399
In 2025*
534 ▼62%
Recorded as
mostly female

At least 45,092 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Cleo by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1900s, when it ranked #261. The largest share of babies named Cleo, 48.6%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#577410
1890s#3621,319
1900s#2612,878
1910s#2749,716
1920s#33411,188
1930s#4616,059
1940s#7373,509
1950s#1,1022,196
1960s#1,7801,030
1970s#2,479662
1980s#3,227544
1990s#3,613641
2000s#4,272704
2010s#2,6711,515
2020s#1,2622,721
Before 19014.3%
Greatest Generation 1901–2748.6%
Silent Generation 1928–4522.1%
Baby boom 1946–648.9%
Generation X 1965–802.5%
Millennials 1981–962%
Generation Z 1997–122.7%
2013 and later8.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Cleo is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Cleo has been most common in Arkansas (4.3×), Oklahoma (4.1×), and Mississippi (2.9×), and least common in New Jersey (0.08×).

32,725 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Cleo

#2,317 Priya · 11,068#2,318 Ivory · 11,058#2,320 Gino · 11,050#2,321 Trista · 11,025

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Cleo, most common first.

#15,903 Clea · 717#16,764 Clio · 668#43,336 Clee · 163#52,133 Clo · 109

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