Gender Feminine
Usage English, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1] , Ancient Greek [2] , Greek Mythology
Meaning & History
Means "green shoot" in Greek, referring to new plant growth in the spring [2] [3] . This was an epithet of the Greek goddess Demeter. The name is also mentioned by Paul in one of his epistles in the New Testament.As an English name, Chloe has been in use since the Protestant Reformation. It started getting more popular in the 1980s in the United Kingdom and then the United States. It was the most popular name for girls in England and Wales from 1997 to 2002. This is one of the few English-language names that is often written with a diaeresis, as Chloë.
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youthful natural wholesome delicate refined
Images
Statue of Demeter, also called ChloeStatue of Demeter, also called Chloe
Sources & References
- Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry g5514, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=g5514.
- Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Χλόη.
- Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry xlo/h, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Dxlo%2Fh.
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