Chloe

plural Chloes · alternative Chloeigh · alternative Chloey · alternative Chloé · alternative Chloë · alternative Chlöe · alternative Cloe · alternative Khloe · alternative Khloeigh · alternative Khloé · alternative Kloeigh · alternative Kloey

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.

   For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

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   Of Chloe all the town has rung; / By ev'ry Size of Poets sung. / So beautiful a Nymph appears / But once in Twenty Thousand Years.

   1731, Jonathan Swift, Strephon and Chloe

   Before he had met this one, Morgan had assumed that people called Chloe were either the neurotic brilliant daughters of Oxbridge dons or else silly screaming debutantes.

   1981, William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa, H.Hamilton, →ISBN, page 24

   New Zealand registration officials apparently blocked other questionable names in the past, including Fish and Chips and Sex Fruit, but allowed others, such as Number 16 Bus Shelter and Violence. […] I’m fine with the Gavins and the Masons and the Chloes, but the Poppy Honeys and the Banjos and the Sex Fruits simply have to go.

   2009 April 25, “Meet Number 16 Bus Shelter”, in Austin Daily Herald, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2025