Clio

Where Clio comes from

From the Ancient Greek Κλειώ (Kleiṓ). The award and car model were named after the goddess.
— Wiktionary's entry for Clio
  • Ancient Greek
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1894
    First appearance
    #1,485 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1906
    Peak, #1,416
    8 babies named Clio — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1907
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1947
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.